#maybe ogawa forgot that she made all the fruit disappear ? it seems unlikely to me but anything is possible ig | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

iveneverbeenmorestressedinmylife · 8 months ago

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Has anyone here read the memory police by yōko ogawa. And if you have do you perhaps know WHY the author keeps mentioning fruits so often after they disappeared?? The main character says that she wants to buy fruit to make punch, she complains about not having any strawberries for her cake, she writes about a dress made of fruit peels in her novel, even one of the books she burns has an image of a fruit in its cover. Is the part where all fruit supposedly dissapeared a translation error?? Would the amount of times fruit get mentioned stand out to me as much if I wasn't seeking them out or if their presence didn't directly contradict one of the earlier chapters??????? What does it all mean.

#the memory police #googling led me to a reddit thread where people were discussing this exact same thing #so im definitely not the only one who has been bothered by this #but also how could this be a translation error????#im reading the greek translation and the people on reddit were most likely reading the english one #what are the chances of two different translators making the same mistake in two different languages.#i guess i will never know unless someone here has read the original japanes one and they are willing to tell me what it says???#like maybe not all of them disappeared. maybe it was a specific subtype of fruit and both of the translators misunderstood. idk.#Al's ramblings #maybe ogawa forgot that she made all the fruit disappear ? it seems unlikely to me but anything is possible ig

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