After "the great dazzling explosion of unreality" ends, the population is left to face "the unburied corpses swarming with flies and beginning to rot under their very noses, the bruised backs of those whom they had whipped".
Cartridges, barbed wire and fragments of shells lay all over it; unburied corpses were busy with yellow flies.
Among the stiff stacks of unburied corpses and the ghostlike, disbelieving living, he had been able only to think how lucky he was.
Media coverage of the siege of Fallujah includes newspaper photos of stray dogs chewing on unburied corpses, and dramatic televised appeals from inside the stricken city.
The other image is of rout and chaos: strikes, riots, rubbish mountains in Leicester Square, the legendary bodies that went unburied, three-day weeks, devaluations and IMF bail-outs.
Same old place Greece's nationalist archbishop Viktor Klima, Europe's summiteer Western man's burden Poland's unburied past Is it catching Russian flu?
Particularly clever is the ever-watching chorus that flits deftly in and out of scene and character, while Anne Carson's translation is a store of delights (the unburied body is "sweet sorrymeat for the little lusts of the birds").The production also avoids emotional burnout, a frequent pitfall of the play when performed.
Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied.
Apparently, the mainland was even responsible for the bubonic plague in 14th-century Europe, which spread west from unburied corpses after an earthquake in southern China.
As Fukushima showed, unburied waste is vulnerable to natural disasters.
The peace process, and the shared government it led to, are rightly seen as a towering success.But bits of the unburied past from time to time come to light, and require response.
