In these poems, with titles like "Chronic," "The Great Destroyer" and "Death Star," Ms. Cruz does more than just brood on death, mental illness and the minefields of girlhood — she gets this close to the thing itself, to "the pilot/Blue light of the mind" going out, as in lines like these: From "Eleven": The traveling minstrel show Called girlhood — I burned it Down to the ground.
When its creator, J Robert Oppenheimer, stood in the desert watching the infamous Trinity Test he was reminded of the Hindu verse: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds".
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Asked what went through his mind when he witnessed the detonation of the first atomic bomb, Robert Oppenheimer replied with a quotation from the Hindu epic, "Bhagavadgita": "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds".
After the detonation of the first test bomb in 1945, Robert Oppenheimer, the programme's director, later claimed to have recalled a line from Hindu scripture: "I am become death, destroyer of worlds".
As he watched the first atomic bomb test, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who directed the project, said he recalled a line attributed to the god Shiva in the Bhagavad-Gita: "Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds".
Struck by the Destroyer and near death, Thor's sacrifice proves him worthy to wield Mjolnir.
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".
When the first test atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexican desert Oppenheimer quoted the Bhagavad Gita: "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds".
Consider Robert Rauschenberg's "Erased de Kooning Drawing," from 1953, or Harold Eugene Edgerton's footage of nuclear explosions, a kind of self-portrait of "Death, the destroyer of worlds," in the phrase attributed to Robert Oppenheimer.
