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It would be Babel all over again. Sympathy Tower Tokyo would throw our language into disarray; it would tear the world apart. Not because, dizzy with our architectural prowess, we had reached too close to heaven and enraged the gods, but because we had begun to abuse language, to bend and stretch and break it as we each saw fit, so that before long no one could understand what anyone else was saying.
Sympathy Tower Tokyo is the translation by Jesse Kirkwood of 東京都同情塔 by 九段理江 (Rie Qudan).
The origi ...more
Sympathy Tower Tokyo is the translation by Jesse Kirkwood of 東京都同情塔 by 九段理江 (Rie Qudan).
The origi ...more
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