By Michihiko Hachiya
Writer: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1955. Hardcover, fifth influence.
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Dr. Katsube held little hope for her. Mr. Shiota, a Communications Bureau employee, had been wounded near Nigitsu • and was now in the home of a friend in Hesaka. A messenger came to ask if he could be brought to the hospi tal. Word was sent for him to come without delay. People who had taken refuge in outlying villages and suburbs began to return. Word had reached them that the hospital was functioning, so in they came from temples, schools, houses, and even barns. None of these people had received any treatment, and all were weak with hunger.
Sudden, tem porary deafness was one symptom everyone complained of if pressure in the chamber was abruptly altered. Now, I could state positively that I heard nothing like an explosion when we were bombed the other morning, nor did I remember any sound during my walk to the hospital as houses collapsed around me. It was as though I walked through a gloomy, silent motion picture. Others whom I questioned had had the same experience. • How then could one account for my failure and the failure of others to hear an explosion except on the premise that a sudden change in atmospheric pressure had rendered those nearby tem porarily deaf: Could the bleeding we were beginning to observe be explained on the same basis?
I had seen enough to know that the da mage was heavy, but what they had told me was unbelievable. When I thought of the in jured, lying in the sun beggi ng for water, I felt as though I were committi n g a sin by bei ng where I was. I no longer felt quite so sorry for those of our patients who were obliged to lie on the hard concrete floors in the toilets. My t houghts turned to myself. "If only I hadn't been hurt," I mused, "I could be doing some thing instea d of lying here as a patient, requiring the attention of my comrades.