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Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

What's in the Box?

Anynow: What's in the box? I don't know. Rit liked us to have an entity or an item in a narrative and to tell the reader that there is something in it, and then to never, never, never explicitly allude to what that is. Because it just forces the reader to be an active participant. Aniomercomme doesn't really give an inch in that regard, right? No. And he may not know, no, he himself, ma oois the thing greatly,. There could be a box with nothing in d it's its function, structurally, just this device to force contemplation in action on the readers.

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