The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

Story 1: “The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”

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1. Copper

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2. They saw that the Caru’ee were using the stone brain for its intended purpose.

Story 2: “State Change”

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3. A beech branch

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4. The “state change” happens in a person when their soul takes on a new shape.

Story 3: “The Perfect Match”

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5. “My Way” by Frank Sinatra

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6. Centillion began ranking real estate listings based on users’ race.

Story 4: “Good Hunting”

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7. Swallow Tail

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8. As a member of an ethnic minority and a sex worker, she knows she will be powerless without him.

Story 5: “The Literomancer”

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9. Autumn

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10. A literomancer is someone who practices divination through letters and words.

Story 6: “Simulacrum”

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11. Anna’s father Paul

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12. Paul could have affairs with artificial women but not real living ones.

Story 7: “The Regular”

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13. My Hong Kong, Your Hong Kong

14. Once per day

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15. It leaves the impression of a wedding ring, which makes women feel safer.

Story 8: “The Paper Menagerie”

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16. Star Wars action figures

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17. He thinks that if she were more American, he would fit in better at school and stop being teased.

Story 9: “An Advanced Readers’ Picture Book of Comparative Cognition”

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18. Food of the gods

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19. Her parents taught her how to be fearless by surviving a life-threatening journey.

Story 10: “The Waves”

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20. Ten years old

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21. Immortality means that Earth will quickly become overpopulated, so they’ll need to move to other planets.

Story 11: “Mono no aware”

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22. Spanish

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23. Dr. Hamilton is in love with Hiroto’s mother and protects her son as a favor.

Story 12: “All the Flavors”

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24. Nugget

25. Long Life

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26. They find the idea barbaric because dogs are too close to being family friends.

27. She thinks they’re going to undermine the local laundresses with their cheap prices.

Story 13: “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel”

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28. Open up, sea

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29. He wants to draw attention to racial segregation.

Story 14: “The Litigation Master and the Monkey King”

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30. Confucius

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31. The first character has a double meaning, which makes it sound like the royal family is uneducated.

Story 15: “The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary”

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32. He dies by suicide.

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33. He felt it would give his work less credibility on an international scale.