Elaborate Underground Base: The Professor's laboratory is hidden under a high-security office building in Tokyo.Downer Ending: See the entry for Bittersweet Ending above.Crystal Skull: The protagonist is given a skull by the professor which glows.Consummate Professional: The Narrator is very cool, methodic, and disciplined about his job.Big Eater: The librarian in Hard-Boiled Wonderland is a thin woman who always seems to be hungry.Big Beautiful Woman: According to the narrator, the Granddaughter is pudgy in a very attractive way.Bittersweet Ending: The End of the World plot, leading to a Downer Ending for the Hard-Boiled Wonderland plot.Beneath the Earth: The lairs of the INKlings.His granddaughter also qualifies - she's learned huge amounts from her grandfather and has no trouble dealing with a pair of Semiotec goons. Despite his age, he still manages to climb an underground mountain with a sprained ankle while fending off horrible underground creatures. Badass Bookworm: The Professor is an old man and a brilliant scientist.And I Must Scream: What the protagonist and the Professor think living inside one's own mind would be like.The two parallel narratives begin to bleed through into one another as the novel reaches its conclusion, exploring themes of identity and consciousness.
The second narrative ("The End of the World") follows an individual who has just arrived in a strange walled town where the inhabitants, including the narrator, have been separated from their shadows and are not allowed to go beyond the town wall. The first narrative ("Hard-Boiled Wonderland") tells the story of an unnamed protagonist in a Cyberpunk future Tokyo who is trained to be what is essentially a human data processor, whose subconscious holds an encryption key to prevent the information from falling into the wrong hands. The story alternates between two narratives, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland" and "The End of the World", and has a strange, dreamlike quality running through both. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Japanese: 世界の終りとハードボイルド・ワンダーランド, Sekai no Owari to Hādo-Boirudo Wandārando) is a 1985 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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