Word: kappa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later kappa women, a good man was harder to find. Under a firm system of courtship in reverse, she-kappa had to chase and capture their husbands. In these efforts they were often assisted by parents, brothers and sisters. ("Oh, how miserable the he-kappa...
...only uncaptured kappa man was Mag, the philosopher, who was too ugly and stayed inside his house almost all the time reading books in a dusky room lighted by a seven-color glass lantern. When No. 23 congratulated him on his bachelorhood, Mag sighed, said wistfully: "It's quite natural that you don't see how we feel, because you are not a kappa. But occasionally I myself desire those dreadful she-kappa to run after...
...Among kappa families, birth control has been greatly refined and democratized. Just before birth the father calls in a loud voice to his unborn child to see if it wishes to enter the world. If the answer is no, the midwife injects some liquid into the mother's abdomen, which promptly shrinks to normal size...
Workers Come Cheap. Parts of Akutagawa's book might have come from Dean Swift. Accompanied by Gael, "a capitalist of capitalists," No. 23 visited some kappa factories. His guide told him that each month the kappa invent seven or eight hundred new machines which throw 40 or 50,000 kappa out of work. When No. 23 wondered about the absence of labor trouble, his kappa friends explained nonchalantly: "They are all eaten up. We kill all those workers and eat their flesh. This month 64,769 workers have been dismissed and the price of meat has dropped...
...making a fuss," said Pep (the kappa judge), who sat frowning in front of a wild peach in a pot, "we've got the workers' Butchery...