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“Is it honesty or crooked deceit that enables me to scale the higher wall?”

“The next morning, Trenchcoat picked me up in a black Lincoln.”

As confused as I am this was just hilarious

At first the POV shifts irritated me now they’re intriguing me 🌝

“On the other hand, when someone appropriates assets the assets of the citizen body and then goes on to rob them of their very freedom and enslave them, then denigration gives way to congratulation.”
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“After all, every one belongs to every one else.”

“The world was full of fathers—was therefore full of misery; full of mothers—therefore of every kind of perversion from sadism to chastity; full of brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts—full of madness and suicide.”

“Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind.”

“It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; to abolish the love of nature, but not the tendency to consume transport.”

“If the physical development could be speeded up till it was as quick, say, as a cow’s, what an enormous saving to the Community!”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”

“Yesterday I went down to the Piraeus with Glaucon the son of Ariston to worship the goddess and also because I wanted to see how they would conduct the festival on this, its first performance.”

You stared blankly at me.
"But all the people on earth...
"
"All you. Different incarnations of you.
"

It's like
sticking your finger in a glass of water to see if it's hot or cold. You put a tiny part of yourself into the
vessel, and when you bring it back out, you've gained all the experiences it had.

“You were on your way home when you died.”

Im a little bored.

genius.

Bro. the SISTER and soichiro. youre joking.

“We sat in a corner of an empty classroom and, after making me swear I would never breathe a word to another soul, Ayano told me about the Offering of the Left Hand”

theyre going to meet the mom….

hooked. so far they’re drawing the old and third house of the story. Where Yoichi was murdered and they believe there was another hidden room behind the grandparents room, and that there was a space behind the altar.

“My name is . . . Yuzuki Katabuchi. My sister, Ayano Katabuchi, lived in that house.

“Kyoichi Miyae was not married.”

Not surprised

“The triangular room was added on for some unknown reason.
It’s possible that they had a cellar under the garden to store dead bodies.
Differences from the Tokyo house: number of windows, doors on the child’s bedroom, the couple’s beds.”

“MIYAE:
I think my husband might have been killed in that house”

O

“The headline came up right away: ‘Corpse found in Tokyo’.”

so basically they placed the two plans on top of each other and believe there are secret passages all over the house. Also they think the parents killed guests, had them go to the bathroom where the kid would kill them. Then the guest gets chopped into pieces es and then he brings it to the storage.

“On the first floor, there was a mysterious dead space between the kitchen and living room.”

yea someones dead in there

“I’m a freelance writer, my specialty being stories of the macabre”

So it’s Hal and our narrator who we have not been introduced to in terms of names.