Chamorro spiritual connection to land makes military desecration a cultural assault.

Evidence

even here ugliness was not to be forgotten altogether: from time to time the train stopped at scaling, mud-colored little stations that clung to the embankment between the river and the cliff; against the military blue of the already dim windowpanes, soldiers in khaki were dozing on the mail wagons—then the green valley grew almost desolate for a moment: the train passed lugubrious yellow houses sliced out of the earth and apparently powdering the surrounding greenness with dust from the gypsum quarries — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28 (#complicates, via linked claim)

“Shit!” Hervouët finally whispered, furious. A vague, appalling ghost of the sacred suddenly appeared in the forest, conjured out of the depths of the army barracks: they had laid hands on the arcana. No one could foresee the consequences. — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 474 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28; Breaking military taboo evokes a sense of sacred transgression, not mere action — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 474

Related

• Breaking military taboo evokes a sense of sacred transgression, not mere action (similarity 0.84)
• War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes #complicates (0.75) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28
• Breaking military taboo evokes a sense of sacred transgression, not mere action #complicates (0.65) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 474