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Tantan to nagareru kono sekai ga nandaka boku dake o koko ni oiteku you de
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Tantan to nagareru kono sekai ga nandaka boku dake o koko ni oiteku you de
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I saw Ima, boku wa and I thought Chikuma was completely believable as a hikkikomori.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part One 2010
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Incidentally, I saw Ima, boku wa at the ICA in London, where the seats have name plates for the donors who paid for them.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » The Jimusho System: Part One 2010
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After writing Norwegian Wood, Murakami wanted to revisit the characters from A Wild Sheep Chase Rubin 168-169, but Dance Dance Dance, the result of seeing those characters again, feels different from previous bokus; it shows us that boku on an expense account is no boku at all.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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Ironically, seeing them as real people makes them, to boku, less real.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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Though written in 1985, “The Twins and the Sunken Continent” takes place between Pinball, 1973 (1980) and A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and explores the shock boku feels when he suddenly remembers his old girlfriends, the eponymous twins with whom he lived in Pinball.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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Seeing them photographed out in the real world with real world clothes and makeup on, interacting with real other men, predictably confuses boku who returns to his office and examines the photograph closely with a magnifying glass.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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As the story opens, they have been gone for six months, and boku has been working.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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Like boku, some of the characters keep memories so deep within themselves that it becomes a defining point of their existence.
Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Loss and Recovery: 1Q84 and Murakami’s Sunken Continent 2009
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