by Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori
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““Today it was my turn to give the speech at morning assembly, but the manager told me off for not being concise enough and I felt frazzled from anxiety and stress. I picked up my bag and went to the bathroom, where I took out my Prada pouch and gazed at my forty lovers inside. The small buttons, key chains, magazine cuttings, and so forth stuffed inside had all the characters I had loved: the seven-thousand-year-old immortal boy warrior, the boy detective who received secret orders from the police, the UFO pilot, the newborn android who couldn’t control his own strength, the prince who rode a dragon into battle . . . After gazing at them for a while and watching a video of Krom on my phone, I started to feel better. I felt them all cheering me on as I left the bathroom and went back to my desk, and I was able to concentrate on my work. I even managed to complete a particularly tricky document before noon without making any mistakes.”
“Today it was my turn to give the speech at morning assembly, but the manager told me off for not being concise enough and I felt frazzled from anxiety and stress. I picked up my bag and went to the bathroom, where I took out my Prada pouch and gazed at my forty lovers inside. The small buttons, key chains, magazine cuttings, and so forth stuffed inside had all the characters I had loved: the seven-thousand-year-old immortal boy warrior, the boy detective who received secret orders from the police, the UFO pilot, the newborn android who couldn’t control his own strength, the prince who rode a dragon into battle . . . After gazing at them for a while and watching a video of Krom on my phone, I started to feel better. I felt them all cheering me on as I left the bathroom and went back to my desk, and I was able to concentrate on my work. I even managed to complete a particularly tricky document before noon without making any mistakes.”
““- I’m so glad I married you, Amane. To be honest, I didn’t really know what it meant to become a family. I just thought you started living with some stranger, and even though you called them your family, in reality it was just something mutually convenient. But with you, Amane, I feel we are alive together. - True. I feel the same way. At least while I’m at home I can just forget all about love and relax. "Thank you,” he said, and smiled. “The outside world is soiled by my feelings of love and my sexual appetite. The only place I feel clean is at home.””
“- I’m so glad I married you, Amane. To be honest, I didn’t really know what it meant to become a family. I just thought you started living with some stranger, and even though you called them your family, in reality it was just something mutually convenient. But with you, Amane, I feel we are alive together. - True. I feel the same way. At least while I’m at home I can just forget all about love and relax. "Thank you,” he said, and smiled. “The outside world is soiled by my feelings of love and my sexual appetite. The only place I feel clean is at home.””
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