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2.13 - Creta Kano’s Story Continued

My unfeeling flesh was not my flesh.

2.12 - Discovered When Shaving • Discovered When Waking

2.11 - Hunger as Pain • Kumiko’s Long letter • Bird as Prophet

Before the mystery of May Kasahara’s absence is solved, there’s the mystery of Creta Kano’s absence.
Kumiko’s letter highly upsetting, throwing me back years and years. The sense of not being good enough. And also anger, for the assumption that this would be a one-way decision for her to make on her own…

2.10 - May Kasahara on Death and Revolution • The Thing Made Elsewhere

All of a sudden, May, who struck me as cool and sympathetic, turns to be highly detached, on the verge of autistic as she is mainly focused on observing Toru’s behavior in response to her casual threats to leave him to die. Funny how he is just as casual about that; a similar detachment. He too keeps observing…

2.09 - The Well and State • How the Ladder Disappeared

2.08 - The Root of Desire • In Room 208 • Passing Through the Wall

2.07 - Recollections and Dialogue on Pregnancy • Empirical Inquiry on Pain

2.06 - Inheriting Property • Inquiry on Jellyfish • Something Like a Sense of Detachment

The real world is in a much darker and deeper place than this, and most of it is occupied by jellyfish and things.