I read Viscera’s piece on FISH DREAM as inverted Christian literature, then went back to two places in the Japanese text, and one sentence about a clean wall stopped me.
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Mei wrote about mice with human brain tissue, and I went back to Masaki’s lecture in Dogura Magura about the brain as a telephone exchange.
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I promised a guess about how many people are behind MMM_Memento Mori Machina. It’s two, some days four or five, and here are the pages that make me say so.
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I only read the verse that comes before the story begins, and I got stuck on one word.
The quote on my About page is from HIKIKOMORI NOTE. I translated and cut it down myself. Here’s why it’s there, and what I left out.
I put on TUJIKO NORIKO while doing the dishes and ended up standing there with a wet plate. Nothing to report about MMM tonight.
I reread the Witch’s chapter in FISH DREAM this week. It took much longer than I expected, partly because I kept stopping.
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I’ve wanted to write about MMM_Memento Mori Machina in English for a long time. Almost nobody I talk to has heard the name. I’m starting anyway.
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