Sanju Mariko - Vol. 10 Ch. 58

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Library purgatory? Sano the lazy writer wants to have another writer whacked? I have no idea where this is going and I'm hooked.
 
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Today / this chapter marks one year since I started work on Sanju Mariko. Biweekly releases mean it should take yet another year for the remaining 26 chapters, which feels pretty crazy :thonk:
and as always thanks for your hard work (y)
 
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Hanging in a library forever and never reading a book . . . now THAT sounds like Hell. And it was his own choice . . .
 
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I was really impressed with how she fleshed out the life of the old layabout at the library. This idea that his wife, his kids, a whole world of opportunities for him would just be waiting around for him to retire is both absurd but tragically understandable. It must be tough to go from thinking you'll have all this free time open up to you and finding out that there's nothing left for you there. No clue where it'll all go from here, though...
 
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That's an interesting representation of the old Japan work culture where men spent often more than 80H a week at work, barely seeing their families. I never thought about what their retirement looked like but it would not be surprising if they ended up as library barnacles. What else can they have left in their life after 45 years of only working?
 

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