Talk:Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume5 Snow Mountain Syndrome

References & Translator's Notes

Uesugi Kenshin and fear of winter

Borned Nagao Kagetora, Uesugi Kenshin (上杉謙信), the "Dragon of Echigo" engaged in bloody conflicts against Takeda Shingen (武田信玄), a rival damiyo after his conquest of Shinano province. In the fifth year of Eroku(永禄) or 1562, he and his ally, Hōjō Ujiyasu (北条氏康) managed to cut off Takeda and his ally, but Takeda was held up over a river by ice blockage, forcing him into taking a castle since he could not retreat and faced Takeda at the gate because of this debacle. A western example with even more severe repercussion would be Napoleon's terrifying losses from the Russian campaign of 1812, and how Hitler underestimated the Russian winter in 1940.

Hamlet and door?

Several lines in Hamlet said by the tragic protagonist himself does somehow echo back to the plight of the SOS Brigade.

Act III. Scene I. 124

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house. Farewell.

Act V. Scene 2. 313

O villainy! Ho, let the door be locked! Treachery! Seek it out.