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"text": "1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Japanese translation by Giichi Shishido\n僕は話をやめました。やっとのことでその人は、めちゃくちゃな語調で言いはじめました。\nBoku wa hanashi o yamemashita. Yatto no koto de sono hito wa, mechakucha na gochō de iihajimemashita.\nI paused; at length he spoke, in broken accents."
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"text": "1914-17, Franz Kafka, The Cares of a Family Man, Japanese translation by Yū Ōkubo\nもうちょっと言わせてもらうと、オドラデクはめちゃくちゃすばしっこいやつなので、どうにもつかまえられなくて、だからそういうことをどうとも言えんのである。\nMō chotto iwasete morau to, Odoradeku wa mechakucha subashikkoi yatsu na no de, dō ni mo tsukamaerarenakute, da kara sō iu koto o dō to mo ien no de aru.\nIn any case, closer scrutiny is impossible, since Odradek is extraordinarily nimble and can never be laid hold of."
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"text": "1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Japanese translation by Giichi Shishido\n僕は話をやめました。やっとのことでその人は、めちゃくちゃな語調で言いはじめました。\nBoku wa hanashi o yamemashita. Yatto no koto de sono hito wa, mechakucha na gochō de iihajimemashita.\nI paused; at length he spoke, in broken accents."
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