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Amputation

This medical procedure is usually undertaken in extreme circumstances. The severing of parts from the body can be read as paralleling the separation of parts of life from each other.

Cambridge

This U.S. city is noted as a major center of learning, not only for the country, but for the world. The protagonists both study there.

Coyote

This canine suggests wildness and tricksterism, and its appearance, or the appearance of things similar to it, occasions change in the novel.

Great Wave, The

This famous painting, one in a series, is described as a mainstay of dorm-room decorations and inspires a game developed by the protagonists. Its subject matter suggests inexorability and devastation.

Los Angeles

This U.S. city is noted as a major center of popular culture not only for the country, but for the world. The protagonists have their origins in it, which serves to...

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