Murakami-ish Story With My Comments
JoQ: whaw. this story is kinda murakami-ish in a way: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080125/od_afp/japanpostanimaloffbeat_080125183046kayeqv: checkn...
kayeqv: i think the reason y d fish died (or was an easy prey) coz it swallowed the balloon by mistake.. the balloon concealed the letter (it being plastic) and practically extended the lifespan of the paper w/c was just drifitng in the sea.. polluting it
kayeqv: hehe
JoQ: hahaha
JoQ: that's one way of looking at it
JoQ: heeheehee
kayeqv: :D
Here's the story:
A letter that a young girl in Japan sent into the sky in a balloon some 15 years ago has been found on a fish hauled from 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) below the Pacific.
A fisherman found the still legible piece of paper sitting on a sticky flatfish in his catch on Thursday, along with a torn-off string and the fragment of a red balloon.
He opened the folded paper, discovering it was a handwritten letter from a six-year-old girl at an elementary school in Kawasaki, 150 kilometres (93 miles) away from where the fish was caught off Choshi port.
The sender, Natsumi Shirahige, and her friends released letters as part of events to mark the school's 120th anniversary, which was in 1993.
"Our school is 120 years old... If you pick up this letter, please write to me," the letter reads, listing the school's address.
The 52-year-old fisherman said the letter was a nice surprise.
"I've been in fishing for a long time but this is unbelievable," the smiling man told the Asahi television network.
Shirahige, now a 21-year-old university student, said: "I can't get over the wonder of how the letter survived 15 years. I never expected I'd get a reply this way."
posted by kquill @ 9:11 PM
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