Fire Flowers (2014)
“I had relapsed into torpor, paralysis, as if the natural cords between motivation and action had been entirely severed.
Then I was seized with a bout of the stunning, virulent malaria that had tortured me in New Guinea, and while the cherry blossoms blushed along the canals, I spun in and out of high fever, harrowed by visions of green chasms and purple corpses.
Thus it was not until the end of April that I had the energy, or the application, to take up my pen once more. I dedicated my ...convalescence to writing a novella, which, I was convinced, would capture the elusive spirit of our times. It followed the transmission, in excruciating stages, of a mysterious virus from an American soldier to a young Japanese artist. I felt it by far my most compelling work to date, and I confidently submitted it to several of the leading literary reviews of the day, entitled simply, “The Germ.”
It proved too avant-garde to be published.MoreLess
Then I was seized with a bout of the stunning, virulent malaria that had tortured me in New Guinea, and while the cherry blossoms blushed along the canals, I spun in and out of high fever, harrowed by visions of green chasms and purple corpses.
Thus it was not until the end of April that I had the energy, or the application, to take up my pen once more. I dedicated my ...convalescence to writing a novella, which, I was convinced, would capture the elusive spirit of our times. It followed the transmission, in excruciating stages, of a mysterious virus from an American soldier to a young Japanese artist. I felt it by far my most compelling work to date, and I confidently submitted it to several of the leading literary reviews of the day, entitled simply, “The Germ.”
It proved too avant-garde to be published.MoreLess
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