On Tsunamis

& the fear of them

from Tsunami Notebook

I am terrified of tsunamis, and I think of them often. They’re a ghost that haunts me, like a motif of magnanimous vengeance.

I think this is a fear that was implanted in my subconscious after the 2004 earthquake and tsunami that hit the coast of Aceh in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu in India and Khao Lak in Thailand.