私が35歳になったころ「このごろは少年時代に経験したようなものすごい雷雨が無くなった」と口にしたことがあります。ところが60歳ぐらいになったとき35歳ぐらいの人から同じ言葉を聞いたのです。つまり私が強い雷雨は無くなったと感じたときその人はまだ少年時代で強い雷雨を経験していたことになります。この場合は無くなったのは少年時代特有の自然から受ける鮮烈な印象驚き恐れでしょう。
（倉嶋厚『日和見の事典――倉嶋厚の人文気象学ノート』による）
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When I was about thirty-five, I once remarked, “These days, there are no longer those tremendous thunderstorms like the ones I experienced as a boy.” Yet when I was around sixty, I heard a person of about thirty-five say exactly the same thing. In other words, when I felt that severe thunderstorms had disappeared, that person was still a boy and was experiencing severe thunderstorms himself. In this case, what had disappeared was probably the vivid impressions, astonishment, and fear inspired by nature that are peculiar to childhood.
(From Kurashima Atsushi, “A Dictionary of Weather-Watching—Kurashima Atsushi’s Notes on Humanistic Meteorology”)
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