{"id":230458,"date":"2010-01-26T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T13:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=8765"},"modified":"2010-01-26T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T13:05:27","slug":"the-box-man-by-imiri-sakabashira-translated-by-taro-nettleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230458","title":{"rendered":"The Box Man by Imiri Sakabashira, translated by Taro Nettleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/box-man2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8767\" title=\"Box Man\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/box-man2.jpg?w=118&#038;h=173\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>You know how sometimes when you&#8217;re not quite asleep, you think you&#8217;re maybe dreaming, but then you&#8217;re convinced you&#8217;re really awake even when you&#8217;re not? You know &#8230; that state of in-between when you&#8217;re not quite sure of reality and you start making things up that you can&#8217;t really explain? Confused yet? &#8230; Welcome to the world of Sakabashira&#8217;s <em>The Box Man<\/em> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A hooded, dark-sunglassed man on a scooter, whizzes by on a deserted road, joined by a sort-of cat-maybe-fox-like creature who seems to be sporting a turtle shell. Strapped on to the back of the scooter is an unmarked box, which makes a perfect seat for the four-legged hitchhiker. Off they go into the night, encountering any number of strange creatures and disturbing sights.<\/p>\n<p>Mini-Godzilla causes the pair to crash, but the box remains intact and they quickly find another scooter in a convenient auto junk yard. They enter a labyrinthine city of dark alleys and tangled wires, get accosted by cops (the only recognizable figures \u2013 what&#8217;s up with that?), walk through an endless corridor of rooms filled with strange goings-on (don&#8217;t ask), scooter through the most bizarre of bazaars, and finally end on a deserted beach &#8230; where the hooded man reveals himself just before he delivers his &#8230; uhm &#8230; father who with his new &#8220;crab-like lower body &#8230; has become far too decadent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Got all that? Make sense? Nope? I think that&#8217;s the point &#8230; could definitely be wrong \u2013 am totally open to suggestions so please do share.<\/p>\n<p>As we zig-zag through our lives trying to escape our demons (or meet them head-on), we&#8217;re never quite sure of where we are, or even where we&#8217;re going &#8230; our mish-mash global-village overstimulated lives are nothing short of surreal, that&#8217;s for certain. What else can we do but enjoy the crazy ride as much as we can? Let <em>The Box Man <\/em>be your guide &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2009 (United States)<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/8765\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=bookdragon.si.edu&#038;blog=6730168&#038;post=8765&#038;subd=bookdragonreviews&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how sometimes when you&#8217;re not quite asleep, you think you&#8217;re maybe dreaming, but then you&#8217;re convinced you&#8217;re really awake even when you&#8217;re not? You know &#8230; that state of in-between when you&#8217;re not quite sure of reality and you start making things up that you can&#8217;t really explain? Confused yet? &#8230; Welcome to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2824,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}