Shinji Flashcards
1
He was still wearing the same clothes he fished in each day (p.6)
2
Shinji was winning. But the sea was not surrendering: one after the other, mockingly, it kept sending the pots up - all empty. (p.16)
3
The realization of this unknown world came pressing in upon him like distant thunder. (p.19)
4
Until now the boy had been leading a peaceful, contented existence…tormented with unrest…falling prey to the feeling that there was nothing about him that could possibly appeal to Hatsue. (p.33)
5
He was so healthy that…he could not believe that any of these qualities could possibly touch Hatsue’s heart. (p.33)
6
Their dry, chapped lips touched. There was a slight taste of salt. “It’s like seaweed,” Shinji thought. (p.42)
7
He was planning to hide here as a joke … Instead, he deliberately let her know where he was (p.51)
8
“No matter how much times change, very bad things - very bad ways - will always disappear before they get to our island” (p.53)
9
At his feet there lay a beautiful small pink shell, apparently just washed up by the same wave. (p.67)
10
His feelings now were in complete concord with nature’s present fury. (p.69)
11
“Now she flung it away behind her … like some piece of heroic sculpture … he untied his loincloth. (p.75)
12
This place of toil had become for him a place of matchless rest. (p.112)
13
Her face was lost in the shadows (p.120)
14
Once he himself had boarded the unknown and set sail, uneasiness and despair, confusion and anguish had joined forces and borne down upon him. (p.131)
15
Elopement? … Double suicide then? (p.131)
16
Shinji did not have a watch … Placed as he was, close to the workings of nature, it was not surprising he should understand nature’s precise system. (p.132)
17
The boy continued to stand in the same motionless posture, like a sentinel at the top of the stone steps. (p.134)
18
His movements were as useless as though he were trying to run through grease. (p.163)
19
The white ship was no longer a shadow of the unknown. (p.167)
20
It was this little island, enfolded in darkness, that had protected their happiness and brought their love to this fulfilment … (p.182)
21
He knew it had been his own strength that had tided him through that perilous night. (p.183)
