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Money has no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.
— Jan 10, 2026 08:03AM
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3.11 - Is This Shovel a Real Shovel? (What Happened in the Night: 2)
— 7 hours, 2 min ago
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3.10 - So, Then, the Next Problem (May Kasahara’s Point of View: 2)
— 7 hours, 16 min ago
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3.09 - The Zoo Attack (or, A Clumsy Massacre)
A long and, in relation to all the previous chapters, confusing chapter about not only the sad Japanese military command to kill off the large animals of a Manchurian zoo, but also the threat of an American submarine, about to attack the ship that a young Nutmeg was traveling home on. Incidental refs to Toru’s mark en the Wind-up bird. Historical awareness?
— 21 hours, 37 min ago
A long and, in relation to all the previous chapters, confusing chapter about not only the sad Japanese military command to kill off the large animals of a Manchurian zoo, but also the threat of an American submarine, about to attack the ship that a young Nutmeg was traveling home on. Incidental refs to Toru’s mark en the Wind-up bird. Historical awareness?
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3.07 - The Mystery of the Hanging House
Nutmeg ended up buying the Miyawaki lot for Toru Okada, all under strictest secrecy
— Jan 11, 2026 07:04AM
Nutmeg ended up buying the Miyawaki lot for Toru Okada, all under strictest secrecy
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3.05 - A Place You Can Figure Out If You Think About It Really, Really Hard (May Kasahara’s Point of View: 1)
Another break away from Toru Okada, this time a letter from May Kasahara who remains surprisingly open to keep confiding in Okada. Strange, arguably mad thoughts…
— Jan 11, 2026 03:10AM
Another break away from Toru Okada, this time a letter from May Kasahara who remains surprisingly open to keep confiding in Okada. Strange, arguably mad thoughts…
Eric Maas
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3.04 Buying New Shoes • The Thing That Came Back Home
More mysteries. I didn’t perceive the exchange with the unseen small woman as something that she’d be paying for but rather as a treatment or a ritual favor. Not at all as an act of prostitution by Toru Okada.
And apparently,the exception of a major change as predicted by Malta’s Kano has occurred. How else would it be possible for the cat to return?
— Jan 11, 2026 02:44AM
More mysteries. I didn’t perceive the exchange with the unseen small woman as something that she’d be paying for but rather as a treatment or a ritual favor. Not at all as an act of prostitution by Toru Okada.
And apparently,the exception of a major change as predicted by Malta’s Kano has occurred. How else would it be possible for the cat to return?
Eric Maas
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3.03 - What Happened in the Night
Strange intermission, with no Toru Okada, but ‘a boy’ who hears the Wind-Up Bird and witnesses two anonymous men roaming in the dark, one climbing a tree and never coming back down, the other digging a hole and burying something. First thing that comes to mind is the ‘thing’ that was taken from Creta Kano, or maybe Kumiko’s inborn baby?
— Jan 10, 2026 09:22AM
Strange intermission, with no Toru Okada, but ‘a boy’ who hears the Wind-Up Bird and witnesses two anonymous men roaming in the dark, one climbing a tree and never coming back down, the other digging a hole and burying something. First thing that comes to mind is the ‘thing’ that was taken from Creta Kano, or maybe Kumiko’s inborn baby?
