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oxxx Oppenheimer The Compound - Chapters The CompoundChapter 2 Allusions and other References All Excerpts From: S. A. Bodeen. “The Compound.”   Oppenheimer  "__Oppenheimer__ himself later quoted some old text:   Hiroshima and Nagasaki    

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“They probably realized weeks later on August 6, when the United States bombed [|Hiroshima], and then August 9, Nagasaki. The events of July 16 paled next to those.”

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Sharpie

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"Never without a fine-point Sharpie, he always dated everything." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Starbucks

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"Whenever we went through the __Starbucks__ drive-through to get his coffee, he'd date the paper cup."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">//__<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">On the Beach __//

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">"My fingers tore away the wrinkled white tissue paper. A first edition of On the Beach, a 1950's classic about the world after a nuclear war." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">cyanide <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"The survivors in the book stirred up jealousy in me. They saw the end creeping toward them, but all the while they were still in control of their own destiny. Yes, they were doomed, but they had the opportunity to choose when their final breaths occurred.I envied them that, having cyanide as an option." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">SeaHawks <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">"The front lawn had been transformed into a footballfield by temporary white chalk lines. The __Seahawks__ played flag football with us for a long time. I should have been enjoying it. I wasn't."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Midwest <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">New England <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px;">"To Eddy and me, it was cool. War was exciting, especially nuclear war. But it was exciting in the same way a California earthquake might be exciting to a person from the __Midwest__, or a tornado might be exciting to a person who lives in __New England__." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> //__<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">The Matrix __//

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"I chose __The Matrix__, even though it was old and I'd seen it about a hundred times." <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Cary Grant

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"My mom liked old __Cary Grant__ movies. Sometimes I watched them with her."

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">woman's work <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">“That was one thing to be thankful for. Dad believed things like laundry and ironing were strictly women’s work. Fine with me.”

<span style="color: #e4be28; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px;">Blockbuster <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"Our collection of movies and music was incomparable, as if Dad had sauntered into __Blockbuster__ and Music World and demanded one of everything."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 45px; text-align: center;">* <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">Vocabulary and Concepts

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|first edition] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|espresso] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|hydroponics] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">[|Mandarin] <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;"> [|prototype]

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #e4be28; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; text-align: center;">Literary Devices

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"__My gut__ had realized it was our birthday even though __my brain didn't"__

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"I didn't own a calendar. And I sure as hell __didn't mark off the days like some survivor on a desert island__."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"...on August 6, when the United States bombed Hiroshima, and the August 9, Nagasaki. The __events of July 16 paled next to those__."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"...I wouldn't be surprised if he'd __Sharpied__ the date on my forehead when I was born."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"The grayish flour stuck to my fingers. 'I thought flour didn't go bad' (Eli).....'I thought so, too. (Mom)"

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"...it was exciting __in the same way__ a California earthquake might be exciting to a person from the Midwest, or a tornado might be exciting to a person who lives in NewEngland."

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">"the clown raised his freakish eyebrows. 'You're obviously the __evil twin__.'"

<span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"> "I chose The Matrix, even though it was old and I'd seen it __about a hundred times__."