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Of *course* there's a "Strangerz go home" graffiti.

"We have Hogwarts at home"
The protagonist is 19 years old. I'm sure the author didn't mean to write her half a decade younger, but maybe it's the writing style.

What an annoyingly simplistic writing style.

Stupid ass of an app "DoEsN't ReCoGnIzE tHe BoOk"
Well, shit, looks like I found it.

"UG" as first word of the gradualist illustration: I see what you did there.

There is a serious lack of the word "what", to be honest, and I personally think the frustration that came with the interlocutor would have been what precipitated language towards its current form.

Not sure if I agree that we're the only species that have a developed enough language to express abstractions and hypotheticals...
But then again, how can I ask an elephant about the intricacies of its grammar?

WHAT IS A FRICATIVE TRILL?!

"Zo neen, dan werpe men het boek weg."

Het Herman Vinkers-gehalte is hoog, in dit boek.

"En ge zegt by-voorbeeld -horribile auditu voor my- met de woordenrykheid die eigen is aan gehuwde mannen: 'Hm... zó... weet ik nog niet.'
Welnu, barbaar, lees verder!"

Nippon mania was a thing, even before the 1st world war.

Hold on, that's The Mask of the Red Death!

Few things: there's a guy falling down the stairs, an absolute twink of a protagonist, and a line so cringe that I tried to forget it since high school, when I first read it.

The endless musings of a divorcee dad.

"we think that time 'passes', flows past us; but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book(...) so the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers."

I... hm. That's a way to describe it.

"But it's all just history. Things like that couldn't happen now!"

Ah, the subtle touch of foreshadowing.

Le Guin casually explains how a society without money works to a seven-year-old. And anarchy.
"Coercion is the least efficient means of obtaining order"

Discussing epicurianism and soicism, I see.