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Kubikiri Cycle
Kubikiri Cycle | Nisioisin
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A dropout from an elite Houston-based program for teens is on a visit to a private island. Its mistress, virtually marooned there, surrounds herself with geniuses, especially of the young and female kind--one of whom ends up headless one fine morning. The top-selling novelist year by year in his native Japan, prolific palindromic phenomenon NISIOISIN made his debut when he was only twenty with this Mephisto Award winner, a whodunit and locked-room mystery at once old-school and eye-opening. Previously published stateside by Del Rey, the translation has been retitled and revised just in time for the long-requested animated series based on illustrator take's character concepts.
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The Kubikiri Cycle | Ishin Nishio

"Is there really any defined criteria there?
Is it really just a choice between A and B?
Do you really have to choose?
Where is the line between genius and not genius?
Where is the line between what is true and who is a lie?
Where is the line between who is true and where is a lie?
You must not ask."

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The Kubikiri Cycle | Ishin Nishio

"Which should take precedence, the value of the world or your own value?
To accept the world as boring or accept oneself as boring?
Which is really more agreeable?
There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty."

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The Kubikiri Cycle | Ishin Nishio

"Like a painter without a style.
Like a scholar whose studies are complete.
Like a chef who has already tasted succes.
Like a fortune-teller who has transcended too far."

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The Kubikiri Cycle | Ishin Nishio

"It's a problem with no solutions and no interpretations. It's over before it's begun, and by the time it's over, it's complete."

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The Kubikiri Cycle | Ishin Nishio

"The world is harsh to the brilliant. The world is harsh to the competent.
The world is harsh to the beautiful. The world is harsh to the attentive.
The world is kind to the unkempt. The world is kind to the incompetent.
the worls is kind to the corrupt. The world is kind to the oblivious.
But if you figure that out, if you realise that, it's already over right then."