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saleem
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The Earth Quakes · 4 November 04
The glass doors shook last night while I was half-asleep.
At first I thought a truck was passing. The windows rattled louder. They don’t make very large vehicles in Japan, so next I thought, typhoon.
But there was no rain. And I seemed to be moving side to side.
Then I thought, I am sleeping. Someone is shaking me, and I’m not waking up. I should wake up. Someone is in my apartment and needs me awake.
But I turned my head side to side, and felt awake, and was still shaking.
The room was moving.
I did not know if earthquakes struck Kyushu. It was dark, and my pulse increased. I thought some more.
I am not a tidy guy. I place things at random.
How many people die from something falling on their head in an earthquake? Could a ceramic bowl left on a corner of a desk fall to my futon and do me in? A coffee mug? A Japanese-English dictionary?
What if the ceiling fell? That would be interesting: a ceiling falling around me, me crashing to the ground. A day off from work. A bit on the news. A cool story to tell.
But my horizontal movement stopped. I looked around in the dark, and saw, of course, nothing. I fell back asleep. Woke up unsure if I’d dreamed it. There was no evidence of a quake.
Talked to a coworker about it this morning. She laughed. Apparently they happen a couple times a year.
I will henceforth be more careful with where I put my dishes.
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