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"Gather a shell from the strewn beach

And listen at its lips: they sigh

The same desire and mystery,

The echo of the whole sea's speech."

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

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"Gather a shell from the strewn beach

And listen at its lips: they sigh

The same desire and mystery,

The echo of the whole sea's speech."

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

 

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Thanks to all for 10,000.000+ views and kind comments ... !

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved

"T*ve got nothing to say to you..."

  

- In mime

This image shows a detail of an old radio.

 

Ein Asuchnitt aus einem alten Radio in einer verlassenen Wohnung zeigt dieses Bild.

A public speech by an original person.

Terneuzen town hall, Terneuzen, the Netherlands.

 

Design (1969): Jaap Bakema.

The Nelson staircase, Somerset House

Taken in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland, 2021.

Heavily cropped reflections in a Venetian canal.

Questa Ú l'acqua, David Foster Wallace

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"Dieci stelline al discorso ai laureati del Kenyon College...

...che secondo me tutti dovrebbero leggere, almeno una volta nella vita. E non esagero se dico che si dovrebbe magari tenerlo a portata di mano, e rileggerlo, ogni tanto, per ricordarsi di tentare (almeno tentare) di avere quello "sguardo profondo" sulla realtà che permette di non dare tutto per scontato, di mettersi nei panni degli altri per vedere le cose sotto una prospettiva differente e di far fare un passo indietro al proprio egocentrismo." Recensione al libro che sottoscrivo. Mi sono piaciuti i racconti, ma Ú il discorso ai laureati che merita l'acquisto del libro. Buona lettura!

 

"Ten stars for the speech to the graduates of Kenyon College...

...which in my opinion everyone should read, at least once in their life. And I am not exaggerating if I say that you should perhaps keep it at hand, and reread it every now and then, to remember to try (at least try) to have that "deep look" on reality that allows you not to take everything for granted, to put yourself in shoes of others to see things from a different perspective and to take a step back from one's own egocentrism." Review of the book that I subscribe to. I liked the stories, but it is the speech to the graduates that deserves the purchase of the book. Good reading!

Young Roe deer buck (C. Capreolus) at golden hour

Speech House Steam Rally 2016 Forest of Dean Gloucestershire UK. Birds of Prey demonstration.

Temple Speech Room, Rugby School, Warwickshire.

I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.

 

Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all.

 

Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

 

Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men---machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

 

Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it's written "the kingdom of God is within man", not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power.

 

Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness.

 

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Kamin Lertchaiprasert - Sitting (detail)

(virtual painting on photo)

 

Extemporaneous Speeches.

  

СОллПгОзЌы ПтМПшеМОй ПбратОЌых преЎпПсылПк, преЎОкатМые результаты, сфПрЌОрПваММые утвержЎеМОя, МеПбхПЎОЌые ЎПказательства ПбщОх терЌОМПв,

conclúidí dearfacha foirceannacha áirithe bunaíodh iarmhairtí foirmeacha neamhchríochnaithe cosúil hipitéisí,

habet rationem causae potest esse falsum assumitur reductiones terminis causae existunt rationes trahere,

Antworten demonstrieren konvertierbare Konvertierungen identischen Probanden Befragung beschrieben mehrdeutiges Wissen,

universelle fejl direkte fejl modsatte måder propositioner tÊnker besiddelse viden middelbetingelser,

انتقاد معاني القتال الجيران التطؚيقات المتوسطة المذكورة تفصيل الجدلية,

ασκούΌεΜους τρόπους οΎηγίες ΎοΞεί πειΞίες syyllogism Ύιασχίζεται γραΌΌές άπειρη κιΜήσεις καΞορίζουΜ αΜτίΞετες Ύυσκολίες κατευΞύΜσεις,意図的な結果自発的な原因ばかげた掟生知胜因果関係倖的目的䞍安定な結果付随的結果幞運の確認運勢を肯定する.

 

Steve.D.Hammond.

Temple Speech Room, Rugby School, Warwickshire.

 

20th May 2024.

Speech House Lake in the Forest of Dean is a small fishing lake in the Speech House Woods. Beautiful in the morning light. Not a lot of wildlife about when I took this shot, but I liked the light and the stillness of the lake itself. Apparently they filmed some scenes from a BBC show called “Merlin” here. Never really watched it myself so can’t comment!

 

My thanks to anyone who views, faves or comments on any of my photos. It is much appreciated.

wire, newspaper

 

Sprechblase

Draht, Zeitung

Just before our speeches at the rally to support trans troops back in April 19 just before than ban went into place. Also a great picture with a great friend.

Title:

Silence.

  

B♭ (B Flat)

A Novel by Mitsushiro Nakagawa

 

日本語のあらすじ等は䞋の方にありたす😃

䞀郚分の公開を曎新したした。今回が最埌です😃

 

“Synopsis”

 

A Palestinian group from Gaza hacks into North Korea’s cryptocurrency system, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars. Their true goal is not money—but to recreate the lost homeland of Gaza on American soil.

Amid the backdrop of hardline Republican immigration policies and a growing wave of xenophobia, a quiet plan begins to take shape: the gradual collapse of America from within.

During a speech at Madison Square Garden, Republican presidential candidate Justin Bradford is shot. Almost simultaneously in Los Angeles, former president Owen Reed is attacked at a rally for Democratic hopeful Ryan Bennett.

Two assassinations—mirroring one another—ignite a nation’s deepest divide. Yet, against all odds, Justin survives. His blood type is one in 2.5 million: the Bombay Blood Group.

The only person who can donate such blood is Anaya Patel, a community art facilitator working in Brooklyn. Her blood, stored in the Bellevue Hospital Blood Bank, is used for an emergency transfusion that saves the candidate’s life.

Jack Vance, an agent of the U.S. Secret Service, suspects a Gaza-based network behind the attacks. Together with Cameron Bartlett, the FBI Director of the Los Angeles Field Office, and Veronica Reeves, a senior investigator from New York, he begins to uncover a vast conspiracy.

Their investigation leads them to Rafi Gannam, a former architecture student at the Islamic University of Gaza, who has infiltrated redevelopment sites across Los Angeles and New York—embedding C4 explosives deep within beams and structural cores.

His targets: new residential districts where agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and ERO (Enforcement and Removal Operations) live—symbols of “the order America built.”

Veronica urges the President to pursue dialogue to prevent further destruction, but President Grant M. Ranford refuses to listen.

Meanwhile, the recovering Justin and his Democratic rival Ryan appear on national television, calling for unity beyond political divisions.

Their words of reason, however, are drowned out when Grant takes the stage in Iowa, defiantly declaring: “We will never bow to terror.”

Among the crowd, Rafi’s operatives have already taken their positions.

As chaos erupts and the stage collapses, Amir Nasser—once Rafi’s comrade, haunted by the memory of his sister’s death in Gaza—tries desperately to halt the chain of destruction.

But Rafi’s conviction remains unshaken.

Under the twilight beneath the Williamsburg Bridge, amid the city’s fading noise, the two men part ways.

It is the boundary between prayer and vengeance, between hope and nothingness.

  

“Characters”

 

Anaya Patel – 25, Community Art Facilitator

Arjun Singh – 26, Anaya’s boyfriend, Luminatech Innovations

Mika Sato – 25, Anaya’s friend, Community Art Facilitator

 

Justin Bradford – 27, Republican Presidential Candidate

Eleanor Blake – 26, Justin’s fiancée

 

President Grant M. Langford – 61, Incumbent Republican President

Vice President Charles “Chuck” Baines – 64, Incumbent Republican Vice President

 

Ryan Bennett – 30, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Sophia Bennett – 30, Ryan’s wife

Owen Reed – 65, Former Democratic President

 

Jack Vance – 45, Secret Service, Former FBI Los Angeles Field Office

Ben Holloway – 30, Jack’s colleague

Darryl Ross – 29, Jack’s colleague

Elijah Kane – 28, Jack’s colleague

 

Marcus Dane – 45, FBI Los Angeles Field Office

Cameron Bartlett – 55, FBI Los Angeles Field Office, Field Office Director

Tom Caldwell – 38, FBI Technical Unit, Marcus’s subordinate

 

Veronica Reeves – 41, FBI Special Agent

Alexander Harris – 52, FBI New York Field Office, Field Office Director

Elliot Chen – 36, Technology Unit Chief

Alicia Monroe – 58, FBI Director

 

Zakaria Haddad – 51, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Former Islamic University Engineering Professor, New York Team

Amir Nasser – 23, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Former Islamic University Electronics Engineering, New York Team

Rafi Gannam – 32, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Islamic University, Architecture, New York Team

Rohan Shah – 29, Gaza Strip, Palestine; Islamic University, Architecture, New York Team

 

Majid Hamza – 47, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Information Technology, Los Angeles Team

Samira Hammad – 28, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Engineering, Los Angeles Team

Saeed Kabari – 35, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Business Administration, Los Angeles Team

Reem Nasser – 30, Gaza Strip, Palestine; University of Palestine, Media Studies, Los Angeles Team

 

Noah Levi – 55, Israel, residing in Tel Aviv, Jewish

  

B♭ will be released worldwide on February 29, 2026.

Recently, director Ridley Scott remarked that streaming films and series have become dull.

I agree.

If you have two hours to spare for such stories, I ask for only two minutes of your time.

Two minutes with my novel will outlast those two hours.

I am confident of that.

  

Stay tuned.

Mitsushiro

October 9th, 2025

 

P.S.

Micchan — the man who challenges Netflix. 😃

  

( iPhone 13 Pro shot )

 

Motosuka Beach. Kujukuri Beach. Sanmu City. Chiba Prefecture. Japan. October 9, 2025. 
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(Photo of the day. Unpublished.)

  

Images.

Taylor Swift 
 This Love

youtu.be/PfJzQuqWSSE?si=TrtL4Mb-uN2dNmML

  

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🌟 My New Novel: "B♭" (B Flat)

 

This is the 20th installment! 😄

The following is still in the first draft stage. I will revise it further.

•The order of the content being shared is random.

•This will be the final time I share partial excerpts.

 

The full novel will be released on February 28, 2026.

Please look forward to it! 😃

 

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My new novel

B♭ (B Flat)

 

English translation by GPT-5, in collaboration with Mitsushiro Nakagawa

 

“Jack, look at your phone. Another message just came through. The IP address traces to a branch of the New York Public Library near Grand Central — via the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.”

It was a FaceTime from Ben. He was standing by in the NYPD Midtown South command post just beside the Garden. Despite everything that was happening, Ben’s voice was calm.

Jack slid his finger across his iPhone and read the short line that appeared. The characters lay down carelessly, yet somehow they gave the sentence a shape.

— There’s an arched ceiling in the underground concourse of Grand Central. Come there. Jack Vance. And don’t come alone — though, of course, you won’t be alone. —

The message struck at the inside of Jack’s chest like a ringing.

The car threaded north along Vanderbilt Avenue and came up at the southern lip of Grand Central. The city had not quite woken; the damp that hid in the canyon between buildings carried the metallic smell of morning. Jack let off the gas and eased the black SUV to the curb, almost sliding it along. As the tires brushed the edge of the pavement, the remaining beads of rain on the road leapt up into streaks of light.

He pushed open the heavy door and stepped out. His shoes hit the cobbles a beat later. Once he turned to look down the street behind him, the red reflection of a siren flashed through a shop window and briefly lit the faces of passersby, whitening them for a single instant.

Weaving through that cut of light, Jack made for the stairs that led down to the concourse. The service door groaned with a slight metallic protest. Inside, a low hum, like the breathing of a subway, filled the space. A cold breath struck his cheeks, and from the depths of the HVAC ducts a distant station announcement blurred toward him.

Wiping the sweat from his brow, Jack took the stairs of Grand Central two at a time. The amber lighting flowed across his soles; his footsteps linked together like the heartbeat of the terminal.

The iron handrail was cold, passing a faint tremor into his fingertips. From far down the stairs other footsteps layered over one another, keeping an old rhythm that led downward. The arched ceiling drew the air in gently; the lights spread a thin film of glow.

The concourse smelled of damp; the old brick walls seemed unable to forget past rains and exhaled them faintly. The floor tiles were dulled by years of feet; hairline cracks ran through them, where little memories of the city had gathered. Jack walked without attending to these things. His gaze was naturally drawn to the darkness at the far end of the corridor. The usual stream of commuters hurried past.

Weathered signs and bulletin boards clung to the walls like pillows for torn flyers. A cleaner dragged her mop in a single ribbon; beyond it, a lone bench sat as if sketching a pale loneliness.

The air that moved through the passage felt to Jack like the slow pulse of a city’s vein. He felt his breath fall into the same beat and kept walking.

Light touched the tiles at his feet and shadows stretched and swayed. The faint metallic noise of an escalator sounded somewhere far away; the gust from the stairs cooled the heat that had gathered in his body. The scent of the city, the underground damp, and the faint warmth of old lamps mixed; time began to melt slowly.

Stopping, Jack rubbed his palms and let his eyes roam. The hum all around carried a peculiar echo that blurred one’s sense of direction. He told himself he was only looking for “it,” somewhere in the concourse.

As he moved again, a high metallic scrape suddenly sliced the air. His neck muscles twitched and a tautness ran through the soles of his feet. Reflexively he froze; at the edge of his vision a receiver quivered.

Its cord, knotted with the weight of years, twisted; dusty metal glinted dully. A telephone that should have been unused rang out abruptly, like a festival bell — an alien note within the city’s hush. The sound was low but it made the air itself tremble.

Jack turned to it slowly. The heavy underground air seemed to press against the backs of his knees. All he heard was his own breathing and the faint vibration of the receiver. People flowed past as if nothing had happened: a mother led a child by the hand, an old man refolded his newspaper and tucked it under his arm, and moved on.

The receiver was calling to Jack. The call came from a tear in silence, spreading slowly like ink trembling on the reverse side of an old map. He reached out without speaking and picked up the handset. The metal was cold; that cold dropped reality onto his palm.

“
Jack.”

The voice was low but distinct. Its timbre made time seem to slip backward just a touch. He recognized the voice from online footage; yet unlike the voice heard on television, here it carried not a blade but the color of a distant sunset.

Through the receiver Jack felt the corridor’s edges, the bench’s solitude, the small scrap of paper on the floor trickle into the pauses of the conversation. The voice let the city’s details slide in through the window of speech.

“What’s up, Amir? Sounding a little low.” Jack’s voice was quiet and heavy, like a stone dropped to ground. Through the handset he heard Amir’s small nasal laugh.

“Sometimes you get down — you’re only human.”

The voice was calm and remote. It was not the public mask Amir sometimes wore, but something honed in shadow. During the call the brief chatter of a passing parent and child snapped into the line and then was gone.

“Listen carefully to what I’m going to say. Well, you’re probably recording.”

“Likewise,” Jack replied.

Amir’s words fell smoothly through the receiver, making tiny ripples on the tiled floor of the underground. The noise around them blurred once and then resolved again: the mother’s footsteps, the mop’s scrape, the distant clink of a vending machine — all intersecting with the rhythm of speech.

“I’m out of the team. The reason? I don’t want to watch more people die. That’s it.”

Jack felt the receiver’s pulse under his fingers. The voice tried on calm but Jack could hear a tremor beneath. The lights in the concourse blurred slightly with each of Amir’s sentences.

“Are you asking me to believe that? Your professor Zakaria says don’t talk like that — he went out in a big way.” Amir fell silent and let out an exhale that sounded like a laugh as if to shrug something off. At the corridor’s edge a child sucking on candy made a tiny wet sound that filled the space between words.

“So what now? Heartbroken?” Jack asked.

“Something like that. This detonator will destroy many buildings yet.”

That phrase punched through the little room inside the receiver. For an instant the light underground clouded faintly. Yet the corridor moved on as always; no one turned. The anomaly existed only in sound.

“Tell me exactly where, how many, what mechanism — brief. Don’t mix in jokes.” Jack’s tone chilled like ice cracking. Amir tried to explain calmly, but Jack listened more to the weight behind the words than to their particulars. In the pauses, the phone booth’s shadow stretched and traced a thin black groove across the floor.

“We weren’t trained terrorists, not professionals. The information was distributed piece by piece. Think of how betrayal would happen — like how I can call you now.” Amir’s voice was careful; not fearful. Jack pressed the receiver to his ear and felt the city’s everyday noises woven into the fabric of the explanation. An old woman adjusting her bag at the corridor’s edge, the faint opening of a shutter somewhere distant — the beginnings of small workdays.

“We infiltrated about five years ago. We planted C4 in the core of buildings that were being built then. Rafi studied architecture, so he knew where to place it. You’ve seen the collapse a million times online, you know how it looks. To detonate, you need an old phone that reads a ‘mute reader’ QR code. Along with it is a tablet I made myself. I embedded C4 into two-thirds of its battery. The tablet has old fingerprint authentication — the kind from a long time ago. I made two of them. One is in Los Angeles, one in New York.”

“So there are two detonators?”

“I don’t know. I wasn’t the only one from the electronics department. Also, the phones that read the QR code are ancient, too specialized — they never caught on.”

“How do you trigger it?”

“There’s a special QR code placed on a site. You hold the phone up and read it. The QR is a 3D layer. The code rises in relief, deciphers itself, converts into a detonation code, and sends it by radio.”

“Radio? Not Wi‑Fi?”

“If it were Wi‑Fi you’d shut it down quickly. I modified the tablet. It’s not Wi‑Fi — it uses FM radio, like pirate radio.”

“We can jam the frequency.”

Amir laughed for a long moment before speaking.

“I set the app so the frequency can be changed arbitrarily. I also set it so that any signal sent to jam the frequency triggers the detonation. So either way, boom.”

Jack was silent for a little while, then asked,

“Where is the QR code located?”

“I don’t know. Everything was compartmentalized. Hardware production, QR placement, activation method. By scattering the flow, it seemed designed to deter betrayal.”

Silence fell again between them. Amir lifted his eyes from the ground and said,

“Jack, I’d tell you if I knew. Only those holding a mute reader would know. Today, that’s
”

“Just Rafi?”

“That’s right.”

Silence spread between them. The call hovered like thin ice. Jack’s breathing returned slowly to the present. The underground light was narrow but it marked him clearly.

“Why are you talking?”

“Like I said. I’m tired of people dying.”

“You knew you’d talk and yet Rafi let you go unharmed? Sounds too neat to be true.”

“Maybe I’m just making it up to dupe you.”

“Jack, take it easy. Amir, don’t move.”

Veronica’s composed voice cut into the call.

“Jack, he’s quite handsome in person.”

Amir, who was standing on the opposite side of the wall from Jack, holding a receiver himself, smiled at that.

The joke across the handset dried the damp air of the concourse a little. They were tracing different faces of the same space with their fingers.

Jack tightened his grip on the receiver and nodded softly. The nod felt like a small signal matched to the city’s beat and also like the announcement of yet another endless season.

Light in the corridor flowed slowly; shadows folded and layered; the conversation seeped into the tiles and sank.

Jack looked around slowly. The NYPD officers who routinely guarded Grand Central from terror stood at the entrances. Under Veronica’s orders, they had all focused on keeping Amir within range. Red and green laser dots from M4 carbines with Picatinny rails marked Amir’s feet. Likely the red came from the terminal’s NYPD contingent and the green from Veronica’s team. Two squads had lined up their sights to contain his movement. Of course, the sights were not on Amir’s forehead.

Suddenly a sharp smack of sound struck the receiver.

“Amir, who are you?” It was Ana.

Amir’s eyes widened for an instant then he recovered.

“Was I followed? Miss Patel. And who are you? Getting in Jack’s way.”

He shrugged with his thumb and pointed to his own feet, where the red and green laser dots rested. Ana stepped forward in her voice.

“Please. Come with Jack.”

Jack added, “For now, get arrested. We’ll hear the details with Veronica.”

Veronica said nothing; Jack assumed she nodded. He switched the receiver in his hand.

Amir laughed.

“If I were to say yes and surrender, we wouldn’t be having this conversation now, would we? Look — trains are coming in. Watch your crosshairs.”

The concourse swelled with people in the early morning. New York breathed around the terminal. The stream of humanity was the city’s pulse, its very blood flow; warmth surged through the concourse.

When Ana shifted her gaze for a moment to that tide of people, she spoke calmly and gently.

“Please. To Jack.”

Amir’s smile fell when he met her look. He accepted Ana’s gaze and said,

“Do you remember the morning at the exhibition when we first met? That wasn’t an accident. I went there to kill you.”

Ana’s eyes went white. Life drained from her gaze; the surrounding clamor carried her away and it vanished. Then, softly, she said, why?

“If you disappear, Bombay Blood in America will be just Justin and me.”

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Across the nation television networks switched to breaking news. Anchors’ voices trembled as they searched for words; the screen held still images of the scene. Smartphone notifications chimed all at once, but what arrived felt less like words than an announcement of silence.

Social feeds filled in an instant; everyone stared at the frozen time on their screens.

“What is going on
?” Hands halted midreach as people watched the images. On distant street corners, in cafés, in offices, faces of people holding their breath were shown.

An old woman on a park bench gripped her bag; a mother with a child went speechless; a driver tightened his hands on the wheel. Silence took the city’s clamor, the suburbs’ stillness, the open fields of the countryside and wrapped them all together in a single deep breath.

Emergency responses began within government agencies. Phones rang; red alarms flashed on screens. A presidential aide lost words and the pen in his hand trembled. Hallways inside the White House fell quiet; only footsteps echoed.

Words could not be pinned down; fear and confusion spread like a chain. Emergency teams moved; experts began analysis. Reports, communications, camera footage — every piece of information crossed and re-crossed — yet the four had slipped through all eyes of surveillance.

Their silence left no record, but it scored a sure claw mark on the world’s timeline.

City, state, nation, the world — all inhaled together and froze in the same instant.

The four shadows completed their mission at the center of the world without being recognized, then dissolved as shadows into the curtain of night.

  

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My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

There’s still more to come. 😃

(This is not the final draft.)

Set in New York City.

  

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Soundtrack.

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For japanese

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Note: I gave a brief explanation of this novel in the following video:

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iTunes Playlist Link::

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b/pl.u-47DJGhopxMD

 

For japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

 

My new novel:

B♭ (B-flat)

Notes

1. "Bombay Blood Type (hh type)"

•Characteristics: A rare blood type that lacks the usual ABO antigens — cannot be classified as A, B, or O.

•Discovery: First identified in 1952 in Mumbai, India (formerly Bombay).

•Prevalence: Roughly 1 in 10,000 people in India; globally, about 1 in 2.5 million.

•Transfusion Compatibility: Only compatible with blood from other Bombay type donors.

2. 2024 Harvard University Valedictorian Speech – The Power of Not Knowing

youtu.be/SOUH8iVqSOI?si=Ju-Y728irtcWR71K

3. Shots Fired at Trump Rally

youtu.be/1ejfAkzjEhk?si=ASqJwEmkY-2rW_hT

  

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Title.

無音。

  

僕の新しい小説

 B♭ ビヌフラット 

. Mitsushiro Nakagawa

  

“あらすじ”

 

北朝鮮の仮想通貚システムをハッキングし、数億ドルを奪取したガザ出身のパレスチナ人グルヌプが、アメリカ合衆囜ぞ密かに朜入する。

圌らの目的は、倱われた祖囜ガザを、アメリカの地に「埩元」するこずだった。

共和党による匷硬な移民政策ず、囜内にくすぶる排倖感情を利甚し、アメリカ瀟䌚を内偎から厩壊させる蚈画が静かに進行しおいく。

共和党倧統領候補ゞャスティン・ブラッドフォヌドがマディ゜ン・スク゚ア・ガヌデンで挔説䞭に狙撃され、ほが同時刻、ロサンれルスでは前倧統領オヌりェン・リヌドもたた、民䞻党候補ラむアン・ベネットの集䌚で撃たれる。

囜家を二分する双方向の暗殺。だが、ゞャスティンは奇跡的に生還する。

圌の血液型は、䞖界でわずか250䞇人に䞀人ずいわれる「ボンベむブラッド」。

その垌少な血を提䟛できたのは、ブルックリンで掻動するコミュニティアヌト・ファシリテヌタヌ、アナダ・パテルだった。

圌女の血液はベルビュヌ病院の血液バンクに保存されおおり、緊急茞血によっお、候補者の呜はかろうじお繋がれた。

シヌクレットサヌビスのゞャック・バンスは、テロの背埌にガザ出身の組織が関䞎しおいるこずを察知し、FBIロサンれルス支局長官キャメロン・バヌトレット、ニュヌペヌク支局の特別捜査官ノェロニカ・リヌブスず共に捜査を進める。

やがお圌らは、むスラム倧孊で建築孊を孊んだラフィ・ガンナムが、ロサンれルスやニュヌペヌクの再開発珟堎に朜入し、梁や構造䜓の䞭枢にC4爆薬を仕蟌んでいた事実に蟿り着く。

暙的は、ICE移民・関皎執行局やERO執行・送還䜜戊郚門の職員が暮らす新興䜏宅街——すなわち、「アメリカが築いた秩序」そのものだった。

ノェロニカは、これ以䞊の砎壊を防ぐため、倧統領ぞの察話を進蚀するが、珟職のグラント・ランフォヌド倧統領は耳を貞さない。

䞀方、呜を取り留めたゞャスティンず民䞻党候補ラむアンは、テレビを通じお囜民に蚎えかけ、分断を乗り越えようずする。

だが、その理性の声を嘲笑うかのように、グラントはアむオワ州での挔説を匷行し、「テロには屈しない」ず宣蚀する。

その䌚堎には、すでにラフィの仲間が率いる工䜜チヌムが朜入しおいた。

厩壊する䌚堎の惚状を前に、仲間の䞀人アミヌル・ナッセルは、か぀おガザで効を倱った蚘憶に匕き裂かれ、砎壊の連鎖を止めようずする。

だが、ラフィの信念は揺るがない。

りィリアムズバヌグ橋の䞋、倕暮れの喧隒のなか、二人は決別する。

それは、祈りず報埩、垌望ず虚無の境界線だった——。

 

“登堎人物”

 

アナダ・パテル 歳 コミュニティアヌト・ファシリテヌタヌ

アルゞュン・シン 歳 アナダの恋人・ルミナテック・むノベヌションズ瀟

 

䜐藀 ミカ 歳 アナの友人・コミュニティアヌト・ファシリテヌタヌ

 

ゞャスティン・ブラッドフォヌド 歳 共和党倧統領候補

゚リノア・ブレむク 歳 ゞャスティンの婚玄者

 

グラント・M・ランフォヌド倧統領 歳 共和党倧統領珟職

チャヌルズ・ベむンズ副倧統領 歳 共和党副倧統領珟職

 

ラむアン・ベネット 歳 民䞻党倧統領候補

゜フィア・ベネット 歳 ラむアンの劻

 

オヌりェン・リヌド 歳 民䞻党前倧統領

 

ゞャック・バンス 歳 シヌクレットサヌビス 元FBIロサンれルス支局

ベン・ホロりェむ 歳 ゞャックの同僚

ダリル・ロス 歳 ゞャックの同僚

むラむゞャ・ケむン 歳 ゞャックの同僚

 

マヌカス・デむン 歳 FBI ロサンれルス支局

キャメロン・バヌトレット 歳 FBI ロサンれルス支局 支局長

トム・コヌルドりェル 歳 FBI技術班 マヌカスの郚䞋

 

ノェロニカ・リヌノス 歳 FBI特別捜査官

アレクサンダヌ・ハリス 歳 FBI ニュヌペヌク支局 支局長

゚リオット・チェン 歳 テクノロゞヌ班䞻任

 

アリシア・モンロヌ 歳 FBI長官

 

ザカリア・ハッダヌド 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 元むスラム倧孊 工孊郚教授 ニュヌペヌクチヌム

アミヌル・ナッセル 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 元むスラム倧孊 電子工孊郚 ニュヌペヌクチヌム

ラフィ・ガンナム 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 むスラム倧孊 建築孊郚 ニュヌペヌクチヌム

ロハン・シャヌ 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 むスラム倧孊 建築孊郚 ニュヌペヌクチヌム

 

マゞヌド・ハムザ 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ倧孊 情報技術孊郚 ロサンれルスチヌム

サミラ・ハンマド 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ倧孊 工孊郚 ロサンれルスチヌム

サむヌド・カバリ 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ倧孊 経営孊郚 ロサンれルスチヌム

リヌム・ナセル 歳 パレスチナ・ガザ地区 パレスチナ倧孊 メディア孊郚 ロサンれルスチヌム

 

ノア・レノィ 55歳 むスラ゚ル テルアビブ圚䜏 ナダダ人

  

僕のこの小説は、来幎、幎月末日に公開したす。

 

先日、リドリヌスコット監督がサブスクの映画やドラマ矀が぀たらないず話しおいたようだけど、同感です。

僕も非垞に退屈です。

それらに2時間を芁するなら、僕の小説を分間だけ読んで欲しい。

その2分間は、時間を越えるでしょう。

僕は自信がありたす。

ぜひ、期埅しおお埅ちください。

 

Mitsushiro Nakagawa

09th. Oct . 2025.

  

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ネトフリに挑戊する男、みっちゃん。😃

  

( iPhone 13 pro shot )

  

本須賀海岞。九十九里浜。山歊垂。千葉県。日本。10月日。2025. 
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(今日の写真。それは未発衚です。

  

Images.

Taylor Swift 
 This Love ( 和蚳 )

youtu.be/PfJzQuqWSSE?si=TrtL4Mb-uN2dNmML

  

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僕の新しい小説。

 B♭ ビヌフラット

  

第20匟。 😄

以䞋は、ただ初皿の段階です。ただ掚敲したす。

公開しおいる内容の順番はバラバラです。

今回で郚分的な公開を最埌にしたす。

幎月日。

その日にすべおを公開したす。

期埅しお埅っおいおください。😃

 

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僕の新しい小説。

 

 B♭ ビヌフラット

  

「ゞャック、スマホのメッセヌゞを芋ろ。たたメッセヌゞが飛び蟌んでいる。IPアドレスは、グランドセントラルタヌミナルのそばにあるニュヌペヌク公共図曞通の分通、スタノロス・ニアルコス財団経由だ」

 ベンからのフェむスタむムだった。ガヌデンのすぐそば、NYPDのミッドタりン南分眲に蚭眮された察策宀で埅機しおいるベンからだ。ベンの声はこれだけの事件が起きおいるにも関わらず、冷静だった。

 ゞャックはアむフォンに指を滑らせ、衚瀺された短い文を確かめた。文字列は無造䜜に䞊んでいたが文の茪郭を敎えおいるように芋えた。 

 

― グランドセントラルの地䞋コンコヌスにアヌチ圢の倩井がある。そこぞ来い。ゞャック・バンス。蚀うたでもないがひずりでだぞ、ず蚀っおも䞀人ではないず思うがな ― 

 メッセヌゞは、ゞャックの胞の内を匷く叩いた。

 

 車はノァンダヌビルト・アノェニュヌを北ぞ抜け、グランドセントラルの南端に差しかかった。街はただ朝を迎えきれず、ビルの谷間に籠もった湿気が金属の匂いを垯びおいた。

 ゞャックはアクセルを抜き、黒いSUVを滑らせるように歩道ぎりぎりぞ寄せた。タむダが瞁石をかすめる瞬間、路面に残る雚粒が光の筋ずなっお跳ねた。

 ゞャックは重いドアを抌し開き、足を萜ずした。靎音が䞀拍遅れお石畳に響いた。

 圌は䞀床だけ背埌の通りを芋やるず、赀いサむレンの反射がショヌりィンドりの奥をよぎり、通りの圱に沈む通行人の顔を、刹那だけ癜く照らした。

 その光の切れ目を瞫うように、ゞャックは地䞋コンコヌスぞ降りる階段ぞず向かった。

 通甚扉は重く、金属の軋みがわずかに響いた。構内には地䞋鉄の呌吞のような䜎い唞りが満ちおいた。

 冷気が頬を打ち、空調ダクトの奥から、遠くの構内攟送が滲んで聞こえくる。

 額の汗を拭ったゞャックはグランドセントラルの階段を䞀段飛ばしに駆け降りた。照明の琥珀色が靎底に流れ、タヌミナルの心臓の錓動のように足音が連なった。

 鉄の手すりは冷たく、指先に浅い震えを䌝えた。階段の奥からは人の足音が耇局的に重なり、地䞋ぞず導く叀いリズムを刻んでいる。アヌチ型の倩井は空気を柔らかに吞い蟌み、照明は薄く膜のように光を匵っおいる。

 地䞋コンコヌスの空気は湿り、叀い煉瓊の壁は過去の雚を忘れられずに埮かに匂っおいるようだ。床のタむルは長幎の螏み跡で曇り、ずころどころにひびが走っお、そこぞ街の小さな蚘憶が溜たっおいる。

 ゞャックはそれらを意識せずに歩を進めた。圌の芖線は、通路の奥にある暗がりぞず自然に吞い寄せられおいた。そこにはい぀もず同じ出勀途䞭の人たちが早足で過ぎおいく。

 壁際に䞊ぶ叀びた看板や掲瀺板は、折れたチラシを枕にしお眠るように貌り付いおいる。枅掃員が䞀぀の垯のようにモップを匕き、その先でベンチが䞀぀、淡い孀独を描くように眮かれおいる。

 通路を流れる空気は、たるで郜垂の静脈のゆっくりした錓動だずゞャックは思った。自分の呌吞が、その錓動ず同じ拍に銎染むのを感じながら、歩みを進めた。

 足元のタむルに光が差し、圱がゆらりず䌞びた。゚スカレヌタヌの金属音が遠くで埮かに鳎り、階段から吹き䞋りる颚がゞャックの䜓にこもった熱を冷たした。街の匂いず、地䞋の湿り気ず、叀い電灯の埮熱が入り混じっお、時間はゆっくりず溶けおゆく。

 歩を止めたゞャックは掌をこすり、呚囲に芖線を散らした。耳に入る雑螏は、独特の反響を垯びお方向感芚を曖昧にする。圌はただ、どこかにいる「それ」を捜しおいるのだず自分に蚀い聞かせる。

 再び歩き出した瞬間、金属が擊れる高音が蟺りの空気を裂いた。䞀瞬、圌の頞筋が匟かれ、足元に埮かな緊匵が走った。反射的に足を止めるず、芖界の端で受話噚が小さく揺れおいた。

 コヌドは幎月の重みでねじれ、埃たみれの金属郚分が鈍く光っおいる。誰も䜿わないはずの電話が、唐突に、祭りの鐘のように鳎った。郜垂の静寂に差し蟌む異音。音は䜎く、しかし確実に空気を震わせた。

 ゞャックはゆっくりず芖線をそれに向けた。地䞋の重い空気が䞀瞬、膝の裏を抌すように沈む。耳に届くのは自分の呌吞ず、受話噚の小さな振動音だけだ。呚囲の人々は䜕事もないように通り過ぎ、母芪が幌児の手を匕き、老いた男が新聞を折りたたんで小脇に抱え盎し、去っおゆく。

 受話噚はゞャックを呌んでいた。沈黙の裂け目からの呌び声は、たるで叀い地図の裏偎で震えるむンクのように、じわりず広がる。ゞャックは無蚀で手を䌞ばし、受話噚を取り䞊げた。金属は冷たく、その冷たさが掌に珟実を萜ずした。

「  ゞャック」

 声は䜎く、だがはっきりしおいた。耳に残る音色に、時間が少しだけ逆戻りする気配があった。ネットの映像で芋知った声の茪郭。しかしテレビで聞いたずきずは異なり、そこには刃ではなく遠い倕焌けのような色床が含たれおいるようだった。

 ゞャックは受話噚越しに、通路の端の人圱や、ベンチの孀独、床に萜ちた小さな玙片──それらが䌚話の合間に流れ蟌むのを感じた。声音は䌚話の窓に、街の现郚を滑り蟌たせるものだ。

「どうした、アミヌル。芇気のない声だな」

 ゞャックの声は静かだが、地面に萜ちる石のように重みを持っおいた。受話噚の向こうで、アミヌルがすこし錻で笑うのが聞こえた。

「ずきどきは萜ち蟌むこずもあるさ、人間だからね」

 その声は穏やかで、か぀遠い。以前に芋せた公の顔ずは違い、こちらは圱の䞭で磚かれたものだった。通話の間、隣を通り過ぎる芪子の䌚話がスナップのように割り蟌み、たた消えおいった。

「ゞャック、これから蚀うこずをよく聎け。た、録音はしおるだろうけどな」

「それはお互い様だろ」

 受話噚の向こうで、アミヌルの蚀葉は滑らかに萜ち、地䞋のタむルに小さな波王を䜜るようだった。呚囲の雑音が䞀床だけ音像を濁らせ、たた敎頓される。母芪の靎音、枅掃員のモップの擊れる音、遠くの自販機の冷える音──それらが䌚話のリズムに亀差しおゆく。

「俺はこのチヌムから降りた。理由は、もう倚くの人間が死ぬのを芋たくないからだ。それだけだ」

 ゞャックの指先が受話噚の脈動を確かめた。声は冷静を装うが、その奥に震えがあるのを圌は聎き取った。地䞋の照明の茪郭が、アミヌルの蚀葉ごずにわずかに滲む。

「それを信じろっお蚀うのか お前らの教授、ザカリアはそんな匱音を吐くなっお蚀っおるぞ、せっかく盛倧に死んだのに」

 アミヌルはしばらく黙り、䜕かを笑い飛ばすような吐息を挏らした。通路の端でキャンディを舐める子䟛の小さな舌音が、蚀葉の間を埋めた。

「で、どうしたんだ 倱恋でもしたのか」

「そんなずころだ。この起爆装眮は、これからも倚くの建物を砎壊する」

 その䞀蚀が、受話噚の内の小さな郚屋を突き砎った。ゞャックは䞀瞬だけ、地䞋の光が薄く濁るのを芋た。だが通路は盞倉わらず普段どおりで、誰も振り返らない。異倉は音の䞭にしか存圚しない。

「どこにどれくらいセットし、どんな仕掛けなんだ、正確に、手短に話せ。぀たらないゞョヌクは混ぜるな」

 ゞャックの口調は掎みかけた氷のように冷たい。受話噚の向こうでアミヌルは静かに説明を詊みるが、ゞャックは蚀葉の现郚よりもその声が持぀重さに耳を柄たす。通話の合間、壁際の電話ボックスの圱が長く䌞び、床に现い黒い溝を匕いた。

「俺たちは、䞀般人で蚓緎されたテロリストではない。しかし、枡された情報は各個人ぞ分散されおいた。たずえば今、俺がこうしおあんたに電話しおいるように裏切りが生たれた時のこずを考えおね」

 アミヌルの声は慎重で、しかし怯えはない。ゞャックは受話噚を耳にしっかり抌し圓お、呚囲の生掻音がそのたた説明の垃地ずなっお織り蟌たれおいくのを感じおいた。通路の端で老女がバッグを盎す音、遠くでシャッタヌが開く小さな仕事のはじたりの合図が聞こえた。

「俺たちが朜入したのは、今から幎ほど前だ。その頃に建おられおいた建造物の䞭枢にC4を仕掛けた。ラフィは倧孊で建築孊を孊んでいたからね。厩壊する様子はもうネットでも䞇回再生だからわかっおるだろう。起爆させるためには、ミュヌトリヌダヌずいうQRコヌドを読み取る昔の携垯電話が必芁だ。それずペアで独自に俺が぀くったタブレットもだ。このタブレットのバッテリヌ郚分、3分のにC4を埋め蟌んだ。このタブレットも倧昔にあった指王認蚌匏のタブレットだ。俺が䜜ったタブレットは2台だ。それがロサンれルスずニュヌペヌクに分かれお存圚しおいる」

「぀たり、起爆装眮は2台か」

「わからない。俺の他にも電子工孊郚の人間がいたからな。それからQRコヌドを読み取る携垯電話は倧昔、あたりに特殊すぎお売れずに浞透しなかった機噚だ」

「どういう流れで起爆させるんだ」

「あるサむトに特殊なQRコヌドが蚭眮されおいるらしい。そこに携垯電話をかざしお読み蟌む。QRコヌドはDレむダヌだ。コヌドが立䜓的に浮かび䞊がっお解読し、起爆させるコヌドぞ倉換させ、電波で飛ばす」

「電波 Wi-Fiではなくか」

「Wi-Fiだったら、あんたらすぐに止められるだろ そこは俺がタブレットを改造した。Wi-FiではなくFM電波だ、パむレヌツラゞオ海賊ラゞオず同じ仕組みだ」

「ならば、呚波数を駆逐できるぞ」

 アミヌルはしばらく笑っおからいった。

「呚波数はいくらでも倉えられるようにアプリを蚭定した。ちなみに呚波数を劚害しようず発せられた電波も起爆するようセットした。぀たり、いずれにしおも、ドカンだ」

 ゞャックは、しばらく沈黙しおから続けた。

「QRコヌドは、どこのサむトにあるんだ」

「わからない。すべおの過皋で分散しおいる。ハヌドの補造、QRコヌドの堎所、起爆させる操䜜。流れを散らすこずで、裏切りを抑止しおいるようだった」

 ふたりの間に再び沈黙が萜ちた。アミヌルは、足元に萜ずした芖線を匕き䞊げお、いった。

「ゞャック、ここたで話しおいるんだから、知っおいたら話しおいるさ。぀たり、ミュヌトリヌダヌを手にしおいる人間にしかわからない。今で蚀うなら 
.」

「ラフィだけ、か」

「そのずおりだ」

 二人の間に沈黙が萜ち、通話は薄い氷の䞊で揺れおいる。ゞャックの呌吞がゆっくりず珟実を取り戻した。地䞋の光は现く、しかししっかりず圌を照らしおいる。

「アミヌル、どうしお話す」

「さっきもいったずおりだ。人の死にはうんざりだ」

「お前がこうしお喋るこずがわかっおいるのに、ラフィはお前を無傷で解攟したのか この話を信じるにはうたすぎないか」

「確かに。俺が適圓なこずをいっお、あんたらをカモるかもね」

「ゞャック、お疲れ様、アミヌル、その堎を動かないで」

 ノェロニカの萜ち着いた声が二人の通話に割り蟌んだ。

「ゞャック、実物はなかなかの男前だな」

 そういったアミヌルは、ちょうどゞャックのいる壁面の反察偎で受話噚を手にしおいた。

 受話噚越しの冗談は、地䞋の湿った空気を幟分、也かせた。圌らは同じ空間の別々の面を指でなぞっおいるようだ。

 ゞャックは受話噚を握りなおし、静かに頷いた。その頷きは、街の錓動に合わせた小さな合図のようでもあり、たた終わりのない季節の䞀端を告げるものでもあった。通路の光がゆるやかに流れ、圱が折り重なり、䌚話は地䞋のタむルにゆっくりず染み枡っおいった。

 ゞャックは、ゆっくり蟺りを芋枡した。元々、グランドセントラルタヌミナルをテロから守る為に、日垞的に譊護しおいたNYPDが出入り口に構えおいる。非垞事態の珟圚、ノェロニカの指瀺で䞀斉にアミヌルを射皋内に捕らえおいた。ピカティニヌレヌルを持ったM4カヌビンの赀ずグリヌンのレヌザヌサむトがアミヌルの䞡足に匵り付いおいた。おそらく、赀はタヌミナルのNYPDで、グリヌンがノェロニカのチヌムだろう。二぀の班がアミヌルの動きを封じようず照準を定めおいた。もちろん、照準はアミヌルの額にはない。

 突然、ゞャックの受話噚の向こうから頬を叩く音が響いた。

「アミヌル、あなたは䜕者なの」

 その声はアナだった。

 アミヌルは䞀瞬目を䞞くしたが、すぐに自分を取り戻した。

「ゞャック、぀けられおたのか ミス・パテル。君こそ䜕者なんだ ゞャックの邪魔をしおいるよ」

 圌はそういっお芪指を逆さにし、自分の足を瀺した。そこには、赀ずグリヌンのレヌザヌサむトが静かに匵り付いおいた。アナはアミヌルに詰め寄るず蚀い攟った。

「いっしょに出頭しお」

 その蚀葉にゞャックは付け足した。

「ずりあえず捕たれ。詳しい話は、ノェロニカずいっしょに聞いおやる」

 ノェロニカは足さなかったが、おそらく頷いおいるだろうず思いながら、ゞャックは受話噚を持ち替えた。

 アミヌルは䞀笑した。

「蚀うたでもないが、はい、わかりたしたずいうなら、ここで察話しおないよな。ほら、列車がたくさん到着したぞ、照準に気を぀けな」

 早朝のタヌミナルに、人が溢れ出した。タヌミナルを䞭心にニュヌペヌクは呌吞しおいる。人の流れは、郜垂の脈動であり、血流そのものだ。コンコヌスには人の熱気が溢れ出しおいた。

 溢れた人の流れに䞀瞬目を移すず、アナは冷静に、そしお穏やかな県差しでいった。

「おねがい。ゞャックのずころぞ」

 アミヌルも同じように笑みを消すず、アナの芖線を受け入れ、いった。

「君に初めお䌚った展瀺の朝を芚えおいるかい あれは偶然じゃない。僕は君を殺しに行ったんだ」

 アナの芖線が癜くなった。県差しからは生気が倱せ、呚囲の喧隒に流され、消えおいった。そしお、どうしお ず小さく蚀葉を萜ずした。

「君が消えれば、アメリカでボンベむブラッドは、ゞャスティンず僕だけだ」

 

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党囜のテレビ局が緊急報道に切り替わった。

 キャスタヌの声は震え、蚀葉を探す間、画面には䌚堎の静止した映像が映った。スマヌトフォンの通知が䞀斉に鳎り、しかし、届くのは蚀葉ではなく、静寂の報せのように感じられた。

 SNSのタむムラむンは瞬く間に情報で埋たり、誰もが画面の䞭で止たった時間を芋぀めおいた。

「どういうこずだ 」画面を芋぀める手が、思わず止たる。

 画面の向こう、遠くの街角でも、カフェでも、オフィスでも、息を呑む人々の姿が映る。

 公園のベンチに座る老女は、手にしたバッグを握りしめ、子䟛を抱く母芪は蚀葉を倱い、運転䞭の男性はハンドルを握る手に力を蟌めた。

 沈黙は、郜垂の喧隒、郊倖の静けさ、田舎の広野を䞀斉に包み蟌み、䞖界を䞀぀の深い呌吞に束ねた。

 政府機関では緊急察応が始たっおいた。電話が鳎り、スクリヌンに赀い譊報が灯っおいる。倧統領補䜐官は蚀葉を倱い、ペンを握る手が埮かに震えおいる。ホワむトハりス内の廊䞋は、普段の喧隒を消し、足音だけが響いた。

 誰も正確に理解できないたた、蚀葉は混乱ず恐怖の連鎖ずしお広がっおいく。政府内の応急察応が動き、専門家たちが分析を開始する。報告曞、通信、カメラ映像、あらゆる情報が亀錯するが、四人の存圚は、すべおの監芖の目をすり抜けおいた。

 四人の沈黙は、蚘録に残らず、しかし䞖界の時間軞に確実な爪痕を刻んだのだ。

 郜垂、州、囜家、䞖界 — すべおが䞀瞬にしお同じ呌吞をし、同じ時間の䞭で凍り぀いた。

 四人の圱は、誰にも認識されるこずなく、䞖界の䞭心でその䜿呜を終え、圱のたた、倜の垳の䞭に溶け蟌んでいった。

  

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僕の新しい小説。

 B♭ ビヌフラット

 

舞台はニュヌペヌクです。

  

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Soundtrack.

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack/pl.u-47...

 

For japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

  

iTunes Playlist Link::

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b/pl.u-47DJGhopxMD

 

For japanese

music.apple.com/jp/playlist/b-my-novel-soundtrack-for-jap...

  

远蚘 この小説を倚少説明したした。

youtu.be/3w65lqUF-YI?si=yG7qy6TPeCL9xRJV

  

メモ

 

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「Bombay型ボンベむ型、hh型」

•特城通垞のABO血液型を持たないA、B、Oに分類されない特殊な型。

•発芋地1952幎、むンド・ムンバむ旧ボンベむで初めお確認。

•発生頻床むンドでは1䞇人に1人皋床だが、䞖界的には玄250䞇人に1人ずも。

•茞血制限同じBombay型しか茞血できない。

 

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2024幎ハヌバヌド倧孊銖垭の卒業匏スピヌチ『知らないこずの力』

youtu.be/SOUH8iVqSOI?si=Ju-Y728irtcWR71K

 

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Shots fired at Trump rally

youtu.be/1ejfAkzjEhk?si=ASqJwEmkY-2rW_hT

  

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Shishio Makoto Pop Up Parade

by GSC

Photo: Susan Allen/ Stockton University

My two cents to the B.M. (The Big Mess).

 

YahooÂŽs behavior on important issues such as the free speech debate in China and whatÂŽs happening here in Flickr right now are very sad stories.

 

IÂŽm not sure if Yahoo and Flickr are really blocking content due to local legal restrictions (nude content is not forbidden in Germany, for instance) or if they are just taking [bad] management decisions.

 

Filtering mature content is a parenthood and family issue. The existing filters are already useful for this kind of situation.

 

Blocking content is not a serious solution. Which is the next country?

 

Mathieu Struck

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Flickr sperrt uns aus! Und auch dich!

Seit gestern werden fÌr deutsche Nutzer keine Bilder mehr angezeigt, die als 'moderate' oder 'restricted' markiert sind! Es gibt keine Moeglichkeit das umzustellen - das ist eine grobe UnverschÀmtheit und Frechheit von flickr!

 

We are the users - don't forget that flickr!

 

Deswegen treten wir gemeinsam in Aktion und zeigen allen, das uns das nicht gefÀllt was flickr mit uns macht! FÌge das Bild zu deinen Favoriten hinzu und poste es!

 

In English:

If your Yahoo! ID is based in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea, you will only be able to view safe content based on your local Terms of Service, and therefore won’t be able to turn off SafeSearch.

In other words, german users can't access photos on flickr that are not flaged "safe" ... only flowers and landscapes for the germans ...

We won't let this happen! Copy and upload this picture to your account - show flickr who we are.

 

Espanol:

No sé cuando, pero muy recientemente a las cuentas de Alemania, Hong Kong, Corea y Singapur les han prohibido ver las fotos que están en el Safe Search, las mismas en las que a nosotros nos dan la opcíón de ver o no ver. A ellos simplemente se lo prohiben. Chale no?

 

Francais:

Si votre compte Yahoo! est basé à Singapour, à Hong Kong, en Corée ou en Allemagne, vous ne pourrez voir que les photos qui n'ont pas été marquées comme ayant un contenu qui peut choquer. Toutes les autres ne vous seront pas accessibles. Vous serez donc condamnés à ne voir que des paysages et des fleurs. Il ne faut pas laisser faire ça. Envoyez cette photo sur votre compte pour montrer à Flickr que nous savons nous mobiliser contre la censure !

 

繁體䞭文

劂果劳/䜠的Yahoo!個人垳號隞屬斌新加坡 執國 銙枯 或是韓國, 那麌䟝據各自所屬的當地䜿甚者條欟限制䞋, 劳/䜠將只胜圚瀏芜觀看Flickr網站䞊暙瀺有安党蚻蚘的照片與內容. 所以也無法將安党搜尋的功胜關閉. 換句話說, 執國的䜿甚者陀了花卉與颚景倖, 是完党無法圚Flickr網站䞊觀看未被暙瀺安党的盞關內容.

 

我們䞍期望蚻冊䜿甚者的權益有任䜕䞍平等埅遇, 歡迎自行耇補文宣圖片蜉貌聲揎.

  

Spread the image!

  

Lade dieses Bild runter und poste es in deinem Account! Lass uns das Bild ÃŒberall auf flickr verteilen und es in 'Interestingness' heben!! So geht es nicht!

Original Version: farm2.static.flickr.com/1299/543864623_7aadef1e69_o.jpg

Link to the original Thread here: flickr.com/photos/atomtigerzoo/543864623/

 

Weitere Infos:

- www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91085

- www.flickr.com/groups/404938@N23/discuss/72157600347681500/

- www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/42597/

 

Wer einen Blog besitzt oder Kontakte zu den Medien hat: Weiterleiten!

 

Das Bild und der Text kann einfach kopiert werden, genutzt, veraendert - macht damit was ihr wollt - hauptsache es traegt zur Sache bei, das diese Unsinnigkeit aufhoert! :) Das Bild ist von mir fÃŒr alle! :) Yay!

 

The font used in this picture is Yanone Kaffeesatz. You can find it here: www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/

 

Media reporting::

- www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/91085

- English Version of heise article: www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91160

- We made the frontpage of explore with this image! Yarr!

- We made the Fontblog!

- www.infoweek.ch/news/NW_single.cfm?news_ID=16033&sid=0

- If you wanna pack your bags and leave: flickr Down - Download ALL your photos with ease

- www.computerwoche.de/nachrichten/594399/

- www.focus.de/digital/internet/flickr_aid_63330.html

- www.pc-magazin.de/common/nws/einemeldung.php?id=52687

- neuerdings.com/2007/06/13/flickr-mag-keine-deutschen/

- www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,488542,00.html

- donoevil.netscape.com/story/2007/06/14/flickr-censors-ger...

- www.generatorx.no/20070610/found-on-flickr-1/

- www.golem.de/0706/52871.html

- www.thinkflickrthink.de

- www.mela.de/archives/725-Flickr-zensiert-...-und-schweigt...

- We even made the news in Chile!

- www.flickr.com/groups/_flickr-fotografen-_deutschland_/di...

- www.spreeblick.com/2007/06/14/filtr/

- www.fontblog.de/flickr-user-gehen-auf-die-barrikaden

- www.boingboing.net/2007/06/14/flickr_users_in_germ.html

 

Danke fÃŒr eure UnterstÃŒtzung!

Thanks for support!

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