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Rebecca Curtis Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Monkey, Is That Your Name?

The monkey says he works at an inn in the mountains with a room named ariso rugged shore. The pay is minimal and they let him work only where i can stay mostly out of sight, straightening up the bath area,. cleaning things of that sort. Most guests would be shocked if a monkey served them tea and so on. I'd never in my life heard a monkey laugh, but i guess monkeys do laugh... And even cry at times.

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