Sunday, March 20, 2011

City: An Illusion of Control


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Office workers in Tokyo's Shiodome district near Tokyo Bay stay on the pedestrian deck, observing surrounding high-rise office and hotel buildings swaying, Friday 11 March 2011, shortly after a 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's northeastern coast:
photo by AP/Koji Sasahara




In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing
About the dark times.



Bertolt Brecht: Motto to the 'Svendborg Poems' [Motto der 'Svendborger Gedichte'], 1938, translated by John Willett in Poems, 1913-1956





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Hotel employees squat down in horror at the hotel's entrance in Tokyo after a strong earthquake hit Japan, 11 March 2011
: photo by AP/Itsuo Inouye


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A station staff directs passengers at Tokyo's Shinagawa train station after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake slammed Japan's eastern coast, 11 March 2011
: photo by AP/Hiro Komae


Captured: Japan Earthquake

Commuters sit stranded at Tokyo railway station as train services are suspended due to a powerful earthquake, 11 March 2011
: photo by AP/Hiro Komae