CULTURE

Kimi Sadanaga

JEAN-DOMINIQUE BAUBY

SUCCESSFUL

UNTIL…

Editor in chief of

“…something like a giant invisible diving bell holds my whole body prisoner” (3).

E, S, A, R, I

“My diving bell becomes less oppressive

and my mind takes flight like a butterfly” (5).

“I am fading away.Slowly but surely.

Like the sailor who watches the home shore gradually disappear,

I watch my past recede...

…My old life still burns within me, but more of it is reduced to ashes of memory” (77).

“A vacation sea, gentle and unthreatening. Nothing like the steel reflection visible from the hospital terraces” (86).

“Does the cosmos contain keys for opening up my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy

my freedom back? We must keep looking. I’ll be off now” (132).