Kenzaburo is a failure. A total failure

摘要

At first, for just a moment, he thinks his father is speaking. It is precisely the kind of thing he would say. It is the kind of thing he does say. And then, stepping out of bed, he wonders if the words were in fact spoken. Maybe they were just ... leftover scraps of dialogue from a dream. Is dialogue the right word? Dream-speech is more like voice-over, narration.