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3.16 - The World’s Exhaustion and Burdens • The Magic Lamp
Ushikawa’s new improved proposal. Apparently a rendez-vois with Kumiko is not fully out of the question after all. All the ammunition is now aimed at the Hanging House. Amazing how Toru Okada is able to resist answering
— Jan 26, 2026 04:29PM
Ushikawa’s new improved proposal. Apparently a rendez-vois with Kumiko is not fully out of the question after all. All the ammunition is now aimed at the Hanging House. Amazing how Toru Okada is able to resist answering
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3.38 - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle #17 (Kumiko’s Letter)
…heartwrenching
— Feb 10, 2026 06:07PM
…heartwrenching
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3.37 - The Different Kinds of News • The Thing That Disappeared
— Feb 10, 2026 05:50PM
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3.36 - The Story of the Duck People • Shadows and Tears • (May Kasahara’s Point of View: 6)
— Feb 10, 2026 05:26PM
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3.35 - Just a Real Knife • The Thing That Has Been Prophesied
— Feb 10, 2026 05:00PM
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3.34 - The Light of a Firefly • Breaking the Spell • A World Where Alarm Clocks Ring in the Morning.
Beautiful mystical chapter with wild, otherworldly answers. Kumiko fading in and out and Toru Okada unexpectedly reveiling himself as a veritable Orpheus. Here, in Room 208, he actually becomes the hero…
Quite a few Twin Peaks-The Return associations. Again.
— Feb 10, 2026 11:48AM
Beautiful mystical chapter with wild, otherworldly answers. Kumiko fading in and out and Toru Okada unexpectedly reveiling himself as a veritable Orpheus. Here, in Room 208, he actually becomes the hero…
Quite a few Twin Peaks-The Return associations. Again.
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3.33 - A Dangerous Place • The People Watching Television • The Hollow Man
Thrilling and Lynchian chapter, forgetting it is a dream; or a parallel universe.
— Feb 10, 2026 09:55AM
Thrilling and Lynchian chapter, forgetting it is a dream; or a parallel universe.
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3.32 - The Job of Making Others Use Their Imaginations (The Story of Boris the Manskinner, Continued)
— Feb 08, 2026 10:34PM
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The narrower a man’s intellectual grasp, the more power he is able to grab in this country.
These days this goes for America too, clearly…
— Feb 08, 2026 10:08PM
These days this goes for America too, clearly…
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3.31 - The Bat Vanishes • THE THIEVING MAGPIE Returns
— Feb 08, 2026 09:02PM
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3.30 - Malta Kano’s Tail • Boris the Manskinner
Was hoping to hear more from Malta and Creta Kano, and okay, it’s but a dream. Still they tend to communicate through dreams, don’t they. I refuse to discard it for now.
On the other hand, the Manskinner is someone I hoped never to hear from again and his return comes as as much of a shock as it does to Mamiya…
— Feb 08, 2026 08:27PM
Was hoping to hear more from Malta and Creta Kano, and okay, it’s but a dream. Still they tend to communicate through dreams, don’t they. I refuse to discard it for now.
On the other hand, the Manskinner is someone I hoped never to hear from again and his return comes as as much of a shock as it does to Mamiya…
