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Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Comodo's Secret Life

Comodo was a salesman at one of the oldest audio equipment stores in tokio's acihabat electronic style. After getting married at 26, he found that his desire for sexual adventures simply and mysteriously vanished. He hadn't slept with any woman but his wife during the five years of their marriage. Codo had come home from work to find his wife gone and a note on the kitchen table telling him that she would be visiting her parents for a while. She wrote: "You are good and kind and handsome, but living with you is like living with a chunk of air"

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