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[英文] 《The Hikikomori's Cartoon Kimono 》作者:- A. R. Morlan 【EPUB】

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The Hikikomori’s Cartoon Kimono by A.R. MorlanA.R. Morlan lives in a Queen Anne House in the Mid-west with her “cat-children.” Her workhas appeared in over 118 different magazines anthologies and webzines including Night CryWeird Tales FampSF The Year’s Best Fantasy amp Horror Full Spectrum IV and Sci-Fi.com and her short-story collection Smothered Dolls has just come out from Overlook Connection Press. The multi-layered and textured tale that follows is her first story for Asimov’s.“...we have to answer the challenge of modernity: what is a kimono or what will it become if it ceases to be a thing worn—Kunihiko Moriguchi one of Japan’s preeminent kimono painters from: “The Kimono Painter” Judith Thurman The New Yorker October 17 2005 I Obi“The nail that sticks out gets hammered in.”—Japanese sayingIt didn’t matter how often Masafumi saw Harumi Ishii walk through the autoclave room door in the backof his employer’s tattoo parlor—his reaction was invariably the same: first a sharp sudden intake ofbreath not unlike his response to the initial visits of his rescue sister Mieko back in Japan in his parents’house. Back in Tokyo the reflexive shortness of breath was understandable. There was a strange womanstanding on the other side of his bedroom door bare knuckles touching the thin wood in a patientpersistent rapraprap waiting with trained politeness born of dozens of encounters with other men of hiskind suffering from hikikomori the withdrawal. Masafumi had wondered there in the comfortable yetpainfully familiar confines of the room he so seldom left for all those months those years if women likeMieko looked upon their job as a form of service or as something more insidious a means of forcingthose who’d chosen to withdraw from life from society and ultimately from unwanted responsibility tobecome a part of that hellish social miasma ... simply because they the rescue sisters or the occasionalrescue brother

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