the 5:30 sun
The possibility of going elsewhere potentially out of the reach of America 's long shadow made her soar as invincibly as an archaeopteryx departing from a tyrannosaurus , if indeed these two creatures were coeval . Like a massive billowing wave of dark cloud overtaking the top stories of a skyscraper , the prospect of opaque drama in unknown foreign adventures animated her lofty imagination . She half believed that a time in Hokkaido would send a beautiful mix of color rushing like a torrent from her pallet . It would coruscate her in warm intimacy the way , to a swimmer , the 5:30 sun appears to immerse itself whole in a pool of water . America exported greed and violence in cinematography , had sovereignty in technological exports , dictated world affairs , overthrew leaders , craved for energy to give to its race horse economy despite its havoc on the environment , and believed with certainty that God gave hegemony in this superpower status to they who relentlessly pursued gluttonous freedoms in a world of misery ridden masses . If she were to live elsewhere experiencing other cultures fully she felt that the inhabitants would be a `` totally different fish ; '' and being exposed to a different fish would be her mutation into something higher . The idea kept reoccurring to her that children were temporary objects in her domain but experiences of this kind were transformational .