![]() ![]() ![]() The diary of Nao, a 16-year-old Japanese schoolgirl, acts like the patch of flotsam and debris that carried it from Japan: it forcefully draws in Ruth, the novelist who finds it while walking on her Canadian beach. The GPGP is a key catalyst and image in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being. Condoms, plastic six-pack rings, plastic bags, water bottles, marine debris all float and whirl in the GPGP. The GPGP is in the middle of a gyre, a circular-moving current of water that draws in and traps debris. And we're all floating around, bumping into each other at random, like bits of trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the massive body of debris and trash floating in the Pacific Ocean. What's a time being? You, reading this, are a time being, along with everyone else who is, was, or has been. ![]()
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