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symbiosis |
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identity |
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dialogic |
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thematic |
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magical/realism |
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realistic |
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metaphysical |
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physical |
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story |
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art |
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creation |
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ennui |
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truth |
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Truth |
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emotion |
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intellect |
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completion |
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duality |
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deconstruction |
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modernism |
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Water is flow,
but flow is
structural,
thematic,
archetypal
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The "Other"
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Toru |
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Noboru |
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good sex |
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bad sex |
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moral |
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immoral |
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passivity |
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violence/dominance |
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Mamiya |
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Boris the manskinner |
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life |
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death |
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individual |
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state |
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fertility |
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Wasteland |
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sincerity |
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image vs. artifice |
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Literature is story--but not challenge, opposition, conflict--not art
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Quest for the self, the inner self
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Story is creation
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Naive Oracle Archetype: May? Honda? Kano sisters?
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nani ka -- a "something" which is the Japanese soul, which resides in the belly |
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unconscious |
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cyber-space |
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inner self |
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darkness | 
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conscious |
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physical space |
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outer self |
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light |
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