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Bryan Washington Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

Taking Time Off, Is It a Good Idea?

Comoda asked for a week off work. He had no trouble getting permission. A colleague of commodas named sosaki came over to him at lunch and said, i hear you've taken time off. Ame you planning to do something? I don't know. Comodo left home with a box in his suit case, wrapped in a thick shirt. The plain was far more crowded than he had imagined it would be. Why were all these people going from to cokio to coiro in the middle of winter?" Commoda thought, no matter how long he waited, things would never be the same.

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