The Well at the World’s End (Annotated)

November 1, 2023

Note: Not a well.

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Kris

1 year ago

The other day someone showed me a WWII Japanese pilot’s memoir. Whoever published it had slapped an Amazon template like this on top of a perfectly good Rising Sun themed cover, so that the title and translator name (not the author’s!) appeared twice.

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