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Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Monkey's Name - Is That Really True?

Soi asked the monkey why female monkeys didn't turn him on. He said he could only love human females, which was 'embarrassing' Soi tried to find another method of ridding himself of his unfulfilled desires. The monkey started stealing people's names and lightening their shadows.

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