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Beginning at the End

Beginning at the End

by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 29, 2023 | Mystery Fiction

“And isn’t it better really to leave things only hinted at?” This is a well-cited line from Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s 1929 novel Tade kuu mushi (translated by Edward Seidensticker, Some Prefer Nettles). The protagonist’s father-in-law utters the line midway through the...

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