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EPISODE · Feb 19, 2026 · 14 MIN

Ep. 16: Who gets to tell our story? Yearning and Romanticisation in "Whale Fall"

from Pages and Afterwords · host Lili

A whale washed up on the shore of a small island in Wales.In this episode I discuss "Whale Fall" by Elizabeth O'Connor. A story of a teenager’s yearning, the dark side of being "observed" by outsiders, and my candid anger at them.孤島に打ち上げられたクジラと、島を調査しに来た「部外者」たち。少女の憧れを利用する人類学者たちの無自覚な傲慢さに、正直かなり腹が立ってしまいました。読後のざわざわした感情をそのまま語ります。次回は日本語回です。お楽しみに!

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