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3.11 - Is This Shovel a Real Shovel? (What Happened in the Night: 2)

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?

3.08 - Down in the Well

3.07 - The Mystery of the Hanging House

Nutmeg ended up buying the Miyawaki lot for Toru Okada, all under strictest secrecy

3.06 - Nutmeg and Cinnamon

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…

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?

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?

3.02 - Waking from Hibernation • One more Name Card • The Namelessness of Money