![]() ![]() ![]() It’s noteworthy that the ‘mollusk people’ seem relatively content with their new state of being Tsumura previously bullied Katayama, but as snails they actually mate and end up laying eggs. Having humans metamorphose into slow creatures that live a simple life represents a return back to the basics of nature. It’s unclear why particular people turn into snails, but the spiral affects everyone differently, after all. Another classmate (Tsumura) and the teacher (Mr Yokota) both turn into snails shortly afterwards, and Kirie’s own brother (Mitsuo) does as well towards the end of the story. The spiral becomes a snail shell, and Katayama gradually morphs into a snail. Katayama, a classmate of the protagonist Kirie, starts acting strangely and is found to have a giant spiral on his back. ![]() One way in which the spiral affects people is first seen in Chapter 8: ‘The Snail’. ![]() Everyone in the town eventually becomes obsessed with or possessed by the curse of the spiral, causing many bizarre deaths and transformations to occur. One of Ito’s most popular mangas, Uzumaki, is about a town called Kurouzu-cho that becomes plagued by spirals. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In Under a White Sky, Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Along the way, she meets biologists who are trying to preserve the world’s rarest fish, which lives in a single tiny pool in the middle of the Mojave engineers who are turning carbon emissions to stone in Iceland Australian researchers who are trying to develop a “super coral” that can survive on a hotter globe and physicists who are contemplating shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere to cool the earth. So pervasive are human impacts on the planet that it’s said we live in a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene. ![]() That man should have dominion “over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” is a prophecy that has hardened into fact. ![]()
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