This is a locked chapterChapter 115 - The Double-Binders
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The chapter opens with a flashback to a conversation between Jim, a young man who works for a government official, and Nelly, the young woman who is in love with him. Nelly explains that she is in a "double bind" because she can't get close enough to him to make love, but she can get too far away to be attracted to him.
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Chapter 21 - It's Way Too Gross in This Sad TownChapter 22 - I've Read Books Full of ShameChapter 23 - A Cultured Man Was Waiting for the Rain to Stop Under the Rashomon GateChapter 24 - The Namayatsuhashi Must Be Burned
Chapter 25 - I Am Amakudari. I Still Don't Have Any Work to DoChapter 26 - As Gregor Samsa Awoke One Morning He Found Himself Carrying a MikoshiChapter 27 - Evening Primroses on Mt. Fuji Are a MistakeChapter 28 - I Was Thinking of Proving It This New Year
Chapter 29 - Because of My Hereditary Lack of Energy, I Have Been Hibernating Since ChildhoodChapter 30 - The Musashino of Today is Shrouded in DarknessChapter 31 - The Throwaway BronzeChapter 32 - I'm Sorry for Being Born on November 4th
Chapter 33 - How Do I Organize This One Space?Chapter 34 - Well, 'Tis Better to Be a Couple Than to Be by OneselfChapter 35 - I've Always Called That Person a LeftoverChapter 36 - Tsugaru Correspondence School
Chapter 37 - Ah, Silence...Chapter 38 - Chocolates Returned Without HesitationChapter 39 - The Story of JiroChapter 40 - Life is Like a One-Tier Doll Display
Chapter 41 - The White LieChapter 42 - DetoxChapter 43 - Goodbye, SnowChapter 44 - The Restaurant That Never Takes Orders
Chapter 45 - Weighing InChapter 46 - Vita SexualisChapter 47 - The Story of Dreamless HouichiChapter 48 - Be Prepared
Chapter 49 - The Secret CodeChapter 50 - Wake Up, Old-fashioned FolksChapter 51 - The Pororoca WaveChapter 52 - On the Assumption That We're Brother and Sister
Chapter 53 - Respect the OriginalChapter 54 - The Cat Who'd Heard It a Million TimesChapter 55 - What a PainChapter 56 - The Situation Is Terminal
Chapter 57 - The Benefits of ZeroChapter 58 - The Almost-Transparent-Failure BluesChapter 59 - Avoiding Love in the Center of the WorldChapter 60 - The Silver Time Difference
Chapter 61 - A Life Without ConnectionsChapter 62 - 100 InconveniencesChapter 63 - Prioritize This!Chapter 64 - Cowards Come in Groups
Chapter 65 - The Half Police ReportChapter 66 - The Worthless OperaChapter 67 - Whose Money Is It Anyway?Chapter 68 - Map of the Humanities
Chapter 69 - Confusing NamesChapter 70 - The ShieldChapter 71 - Duty and SoldierChapter 72 - Gone with the Numbers
Chapter 73 - Shichigosan-ShirouChapter 74 - You're Seventeen Years Old... Don't You Wanna Grab Your Wrinkles?Chapter 75 - Matasaburou Gets a ColdChapter 76 - Unwanted Items in the Tempei Era
Chapter 77 - The Turtle's FraudChapter 78 - A Woman's RoleChapter 79 - The Baby Who Swallowed a Go StoneChapter 80 - The Not So Narrow Gateway
Chapter 81 - Kamakura Myohonji Temple DismissalChapter 82 - Extra ChocolateChapter 83 - No Longer ShogunChapter 84 - Record of Ancient Stretching
Chapter 85 - Decorations at Tiffany'sChapter 86 - Glasses Girl's HouseChapter 87 - Fascism of Love and Total VictoryChapter 88 - Mountain Man's April Fools
Chapter 89 - "It's recharging", said Yada-chan in a quiet voiceChapter 90 - "Don't act like it's nothing!" Melos rebutted in a rageChapter 91 - If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to oar into sentiment's stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is a three-way standoffChapter 92 - Time to celebrate, though in this world there's nothing worth celebrating
Chapter 93 - I'm telling you, I'm not myself these days. Every little thing makes me so madChapter 94 - When the Fruits of Exposure RipenChapter 95 - You must profit from disaster at KinkakuChapter 96 - I will not return to Japan. I could not make that promise
Chapter 97 - Concealment in the RanksChapter 98 - The Serene Realm Beyond EntitlementChapter 99 - A Landing Amply RewardedChapter 100 - A Roadside Artist
Chapter 101 - All Quiet on the Unnecessary FrontChapter 102 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SeedChapter 103 - Wuthering BlightsChapter 104 - Doctor Kahogo
Chapter 105 - The Releaser in the RyeChapter 106 - Rekka-RyūsuiChapter 107 - Spy Nut PuddingChapter 108 - The Off-Guard Road to the Interior
Chapter 109 - Banned AbstractChapter 110 - Hear the Wind SleepChapter 111 - The First-Timer ConditionChapter 112 - Daidoji Shinsuke: The Voice
Chapter 113 - Naomi (A Fool's "It's Hot")Chapter 114 - Adult Go-AheadChapter 115 - The Double-BindersChapter 116 - The Last Defoliation
Chapter 117 - The Grapes of DisappointmentChapter 118 - Hunt of a New LaborerChapter 119 - Multiple Full CirclesChapter 120 - One Thousand and One Christmasses
Chapter 121 - The Individualism of PassingChapter 122 - Comparing AbyssesChapter 123 - Gaman-esqueChapter 124 - The Emergency That Became a Nun
Chapter 125 - Marco Polo's SetsubunChapter 126 - The Sweet GirlChapter 127 - The Way to HellChapter 128 - The Measles of Madison County
Chapter 129 - Time Stories of RussiaChapter 130 - The Loser BookChapter 131 - The Forest of Flower KeepersChapter 132 - The Woman in the Yellow Sands
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This is a locked chapterChapter 115 - The Double-Binders
About This Chapter
The chapter opens with a flashback to a conversation between Jim, a young man who works for a government official, and Nelly, the young woman who is in love with him. Nelly explains that she is in a "double bind" because she can't get close enough to him to make love, but she can get too far away to be attracted to him.
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Chapter 17 - Sister-in-Law, I'm an AristocratChapter 18 - Leap Before You Lock EyesChapter 19 - That Is Why You Are to Flee, Follow Me! PhilostratusChapter 20 - Because It Is So Unstable, I Went to Search the Skies
Chapter 21 - It's Way Too Gross in This Sad TownChapter 22 - I've Read Books Full of ShameChapter 23 - A Cultured Man Was Waiting for the Rain to Stop Under the Rashomon GateChapter 24 - The Namayatsuhashi Must Be Burned
Chapter 25 - I Am Amakudari. I Still Don't Have Any Work to DoChapter 26 - As Gregor Samsa Awoke One Morning He Found Himself Carrying a MikoshiChapter 27 - Evening Primroses on Mt. Fuji Are a MistakeChapter 28 - I Was Thinking of Proving It This New Year
Chapter 29 - Because of My Hereditary Lack of Energy, I Have Been Hibernating Since ChildhoodChapter 30 - The Musashino of Today is Shrouded in DarknessChapter 31 - The Throwaway BronzeChapter 32 - I'm Sorry for Being Born on November 4th
Chapter 33 - How Do I Organize This One Space?Chapter 34 - Well, 'Tis Better to Be a Couple Than to Be by OneselfChapter 35 - I've Always Called That Person a LeftoverChapter 36 - Tsugaru Correspondence School
Chapter 37 - Ah, Silence...Chapter 38 - Chocolates Returned Without HesitationChapter 39 - The Story of JiroChapter 40 - Life is Like a One-Tier Doll Display
Chapter 41 - The White LieChapter 42 - DetoxChapter 43 - Goodbye, SnowChapter 44 - The Restaurant That Never Takes Orders
Chapter 45 - Weighing InChapter 46 - Vita SexualisChapter 47 - The Story of Dreamless HouichiChapter 48 - Be Prepared
Chapter 49 - The Secret CodeChapter 50 - Wake Up, Old-fashioned FolksChapter 51 - The Pororoca WaveChapter 52 - On the Assumption That We're Brother and Sister
Chapter 53 - Respect the OriginalChapter 54 - The Cat Who'd Heard It a Million TimesChapter 55 - What a PainChapter 56 - The Situation Is Terminal
Chapter 57 - The Benefits of ZeroChapter 58 - The Almost-Transparent-Failure BluesChapter 59 - Avoiding Love in the Center of the WorldChapter 60 - The Silver Time Difference
Chapter 61 - A Life Without ConnectionsChapter 62 - 100 InconveniencesChapter 63 - Prioritize This!Chapter 64 - Cowards Come in Groups
Chapter 65 - The Half Police ReportChapter 66 - The Worthless OperaChapter 67 - Whose Money Is It Anyway?Chapter 68 - Map of the Humanities
Chapter 69 - Confusing NamesChapter 70 - The ShieldChapter 71 - Duty and SoldierChapter 72 - Gone with the Numbers
Chapter 73 - Shichigosan-ShirouChapter 74 - You're Seventeen Years Old... Don't You Wanna Grab Your Wrinkles?Chapter 75 - Matasaburou Gets a ColdChapter 76 - Unwanted Items in the Tempei Era
Chapter 77 - The Turtle's FraudChapter 78 - A Woman's RoleChapter 79 - The Baby Who Swallowed a Go StoneChapter 80 - The Not So Narrow Gateway
Chapter 81 - Kamakura Myohonji Temple DismissalChapter 82 - Extra ChocolateChapter 83 - No Longer ShogunChapter 84 - Record of Ancient Stretching
Chapter 85 - Decorations at Tiffany'sChapter 86 - Glasses Girl's HouseChapter 87 - Fascism of Love and Total VictoryChapter 88 - Mountain Man's April Fools
Chapter 89 - "It's recharging", said Yada-chan in a quiet voiceChapter 90 - "Don't act like it's nothing!" Melos rebutted in a rageChapter 91 - If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to oar into sentiment's stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is a three-way standoffChapter 92 - Time to celebrate, though in this world there's nothing worth celebrating
Chapter 93 - I'm telling you, I'm not myself these days. Every little thing makes me so madChapter 94 - When the Fruits of Exposure RipenChapter 95 - You must profit from disaster at KinkakuChapter 96 - I will not return to Japan. I could not make that promise
Chapter 97 - Concealment in the RanksChapter 98 - The Serene Realm Beyond EntitlementChapter 99 - A Landing Amply RewardedChapter 100 - A Roadside Artist
Chapter 101 - All Quiet on the Unnecessary FrontChapter 102 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SeedChapter 103 - Wuthering BlightsChapter 104 - Doctor Kahogo
Chapter 105 - The Releaser in the RyeChapter 106 - Rekka-RyūsuiChapter 107 - Spy Nut PuddingChapter 108 - The Off-Guard Road to the Interior
Chapter 109 - Banned AbstractChapter 110 - Hear the Wind SleepChapter 111 - The First-Timer ConditionChapter 112 - Daidoji Shinsuke: The Voice
Chapter 113 - Naomi (A Fool's "It's Hot")Chapter 114 - Adult Go-AheadChapter 115 - The Double-BindersChapter 116 - The Last Defoliation
Chapter 117 - The Grapes of DisappointmentChapter 118 - Hunt of a New LaborerChapter 119 - Multiple Full CirclesChapter 120 - One Thousand and One Christmasses
Chapter 121 - The Individualism of PassingChapter 122 - Comparing AbyssesChapter 123 - Gaman-esqueChapter 124 - The Emergency That Became a Nun
Chapter 125 - Marco Polo's SetsubunChapter 126 - The Sweet GirlChapter 127 - The Way to HellChapter 128 - The Measles of Madison County
Chapter 129 - Time Stories of RussiaChapter 130 - The Loser BookChapter 131 - The Forest of Flower KeepersChapter 132 - The Woman in the Yellow Sands
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