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"All I want is to be a loser guy in a movie. Sometimes, I realize with perfect clarity that that’s the extent of my aspirations. I want to be Philip Marlowe, but without all the detective stuff: just the part where he feeds his cat..."
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- 10/31: By Hook or By Crook: Part Two in Features
- 10/18: By Hook or By Crook: Introduction and Part One in Features
- 10/14: A Place in Essays
- 10/11: Series 1 of the Saddlebalckwell Letters in Features
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- In a Town Where I Am Going To Live
- A Retreat to the Customs Office
- What More Could You Ask For?
- Reach Out to the Truth of My Life (Part One) (Part Two)
- Hello, Japan. Goodbye, My Japan (RAINICHI 2023 #-001)
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- You Can (Not) Go Back
- The Internet Made Me Stupid
- Irreconcilable Distances, Permeable Boundaries, Overlapping Memories
"Criticism"
- Apolitical Borges
- In The Eyes of the Unfathomable Deity
- Call Him Ishmael
- A Dream of Red Mansions
(Dream of the Red Chamber), Cao Xueqin - By Hook or By Crook: A Hater's Quest to Enjoy Shakespeare
- Demian, Herman Hesse
- Frankenstein, or
the Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelling - A Brief Introduction: Pierre, or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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- In Xanadu
- The Boy and the Heron
- The Daikon Farmer Points the Way, With a Daikon
- Neil Young's Mesoamerica
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