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Geometry of the Novel Spread Before Him on the Walls of His One Room

UNSPOKEN SETTING
Tokyo Tokai district Ambulance Ride

PROTAGONIST
Riding on patient’s shoulders

PATIENT’S SHOULDERS
In a wheelchair

DRIVER
Giving advice on [foot massage] when the
Ambulance topples a bride outside flower shop

POSTMORTEM
Bride carried a fingernail-sized soup ladle in her panties -- kanji for “white” etched on the handle

NARRATION
Delivered by cellphone text messages

INTERRUPTED
When narrator realizes the Bride is his wife