Gulliver’s room she dubbed Uranus-“King of the Heavens” -a distant world where one year equals eighty-four, and where the atmosphere is so heavy that only low-lying lichens and ferns could survive, with only creeping animals like the crocodile to walk among them. The Uranean wind sighed a long, low song as Anemone envisioned the tropical garden she would make in the apartment : a realm of brilliant colors, with the crocodile as lord and master and she herself as jungle goddess ; the air choked with the fragrance of flowers and ripe fruit, and here and there coral reefs and pools of seaweed teeming with sea turtles, palm trees, and lite beer.

By the novel [COIN LOCKER BABIES] written by RYU MURAKAMI