Banana Yoshimoto's new novel in weekly installments

[Taro Toporific]

[GomiGirl]

Taro.. living in a cave like Lucy Blackman??? What the...

[Big Booger]

Glad I get the Daily Yomiuri. This will be a good read I think.. I hope.. maybe.. well, who knows.

[Taro Toporific]

:shake: Taro.. living in a cave like Lucy Blackman??? What the...

Me bad.
Gomen.


D'OH! "Cave like Lucy Blackman" is crude/black reference to her final resting place in a sea cave. Despite boatloads of Chinese and Vietnamese economic refugees being raped and killed with impunity on the high seas somehow Lucie Blackman's murder and abandonment in the sea cave in Atami is more "important." I was at the beach of Hachijoshima when 14 Chinese refugies washed up--mostly women--dumped by their Snakeheads in 1991. Now, there's NO record of those rape/murders on the Internet but Lucie has hundreds of hits on Google. Go figure.

"You always see several dating couples in the spectator seats. I guess young women get a thrill out of watching"
---Court reporter, on the gallery at each trial session of Joji Obara, the 50-year-old Tokyo businessman charged with drugging and raping numerous women, and suspected of murdering former British Airways flight attendant Lucie Blackman. (Shukan Jitsuwa, Oct 27)

Lucie trial delayed after lawyers resign
Telegraph | News |Thursday 30 October 2003, ... of killing the British bar hostess Lucie Blackman was thrown ... The unexpected departure of Joji Obara's court-appointed legal team is ...

[GomiGirl]

:shake: Taro.. living in a cave like Lucy Blackman??? What the...

Me bad.
Gomen.


D'OH! "Cave like Lucy Blackman" is crude/black reference to her final resting place in a sea cave.

Yes I gathered that...

but go figure on the refugee reporting - or lack thereof...

[Milla]

I've been waiting anxiously for her new novel..guess I'll have to wait 'til it's published here.

[AssKissinger]

If you're interested in this you might want to check out the new Haruki Murakami story in the New Yorker.

[Milla]

thanks