From Yumiko Kurahashi, “The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q”

From Yumiko Kurahashi, “The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q”

“Everything’s permitted here, you see. I suppose one could say with the theology instructor that if God does not exist then everything is permitted; but here it doesn’t matter if God exists or if he doesn’t, since one is free to do everything. The result of making use of this freedom is that the one freedom one does not have is that of knowing what is going on.”

–it’s a Japanese surrealist satire of Communism; check out Helen Rittelmeyer’s review here


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