Soviet ghost town
Yesterday on BBC's "From Our Own Correspondent", an account of what it is like visiting the area around Chernobyl:
Everywhere we go near Chernobyl, there are red apples. Here too, in the centre of Pripyat, there is a crimson carpet of windfalls under one tree: fairy-tale apples, poisoned by the wicked stepmother of nuclear technology. If you bit one of these, you might sleep for 30,000 years.Sobering, and well worth a read in full, even without the gems of phrasing such as the Snow White reference.
posted by protected static | 9/11/2005 11:44:00 AM
3 Comments:
That's a scary thought. Poisonous fruit. Wonder if the wildlife eats it?
Probably not; unless the author was being very flowery, I can't think of an orchard gone wild that I've ever seen with 'crimson carpets'... Deer like apples too much for that to happen.
My guess is that they did, once... and now they sleep. A very, very, very long sleep.
Talk about your rotten apple. ;)
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