This is a locked chapterChapter 122 - Comparing Abysses
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The narrator laments the fact that the second generation is doing so well compared to the first generation. He feels that people are comparing themselves to other people, and that they don't understand how to compare themselves to others. He compares the rulers of the world to a sheet of paper, comparing everything to a single ruler. The narrator feels that he is in despair over these rulers.
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Chapter 21 - It's Way Too Gross in This Sad TownChapter 22 - I've Read Books Full of ShameChapter 23 - A Cultured Man Was Waiting for the Rain to Stop Under the Rashomon GateChapter 24 - The Namayatsuhashi Must Be Burned
Chapter 25 - I Am Amakudari. I Still Don't Have Any Work to DoChapter 26 - As Gregor Samsa Awoke One Morning He Found Himself Carrying a MikoshiChapter 27 - Evening Primroses on Mt. Fuji Are a MistakeChapter 28 - I Was Thinking of Proving It This New Year
Chapter 29 - Because of My Hereditary Lack of Energy, I Have Been Hibernating Since ChildhoodChapter 30 - The Musashino of Today is Shrouded in DarknessChapter 31 - The Throwaway BronzeChapter 32 - I'm Sorry for Being Born on November 4th
Chapter 33 - How Do I Organize This One Space?Chapter 34 - Well, 'Tis Better to Be a Couple Than to Be by OneselfChapter 35 - I've Always Called That Person a LeftoverChapter 36 - Tsugaru Correspondence School
Chapter 37 - Ah, Silence...Chapter 38 - Chocolates Returned Without HesitationChapter 39 - The Story of JiroChapter 40 - Life is Like a One-Tier Doll Display
Chapter 41 - The White LieChapter 42 - DetoxChapter 43 - Goodbye, SnowChapter 44 - The Restaurant That Never Takes Orders
Chapter 45 - Weighing InChapter 46 - Vita SexualisChapter 47 - The Story of Dreamless HouichiChapter 48 - Be Prepared
Chapter 49 - The Secret CodeChapter 50 - Wake Up, Old-fashioned FolksChapter 51 - The Pororoca WaveChapter 52 - On the Assumption That We're Brother and Sister
Chapter 53 - Respect the OriginalChapter 54 - The Cat Who'd Heard It a Million TimesChapter 55 - What a PainChapter 56 - The Situation Is Terminal
Chapter 57 - The Benefits of ZeroChapter 58 - The Almost-Transparent-Failure BluesChapter 59 - Avoiding Love in the Center of the WorldChapter 60 - The Silver Time Difference
Chapter 61 - A Life Without ConnectionsChapter 62 - 100 InconveniencesChapter 63 - Prioritize This!Chapter 64 - Cowards Come in Groups
Chapter 65 - The Half Police ReportChapter 66 - The Worthless OperaChapter 67 - Whose Money Is It Anyway?Chapter 68 - Map of the Humanities
Chapter 69 - Confusing NamesChapter 70 - The ShieldChapter 71 - Duty and SoldierChapter 72 - Gone with the Numbers
Chapter 73 - Shichigosan-ShirouChapter 74 - You're Seventeen Years Old... Don't You Wanna Grab Your Wrinkles?Chapter 75 - Matasaburou Gets a ColdChapter 76 - Unwanted Items in the Tempei Era
Chapter 77 - The Turtle's FraudChapter 78 - A Woman's RoleChapter 79 - The Baby Who Swallowed a Go StoneChapter 80 - The Not So Narrow Gateway
Chapter 81 - Kamakura Myohonji Temple DismissalChapter 82 - Extra ChocolateChapter 83 - No Longer ShogunChapter 84 - Record of Ancient Stretching
Chapter 85 - Decorations at Tiffany'sChapter 86 - Glasses Girl's HouseChapter 87 - Fascism of Love and Total VictoryChapter 88 - Mountain Man's April Fools
Chapter 89 - "It's recharging", said Yada-chan in a quiet voiceChapter 90 - "Don't act like it's nothing!" Melos rebutted in a rageChapter 91 - If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to oar into sentiment's stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is a three-way standoffChapter 92 - Time to celebrate, though in this world there's nothing worth celebrating
Chapter 93 - I'm telling you, I'm not myself these days. Every little thing makes me so madChapter 94 - When the Fruits of Exposure RipenChapter 95 - You must profit from disaster at KinkakuChapter 96 - I will not return to Japan. I could not make that promise
Chapter 97 - Concealment in the RanksChapter 98 - The Serene Realm Beyond EntitlementChapter 99 - A Landing Amply RewardedChapter 100 - A Roadside Artist
Chapter 101 - All Quiet on the Unnecessary FrontChapter 102 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SeedChapter 103 - Wuthering BlightsChapter 104 - Doctor Kahogo
Chapter 105 - The Releaser in the RyeChapter 106 - Rekka-RyūsuiChapter 107 - Spy Nut PuddingChapter 108 - The Off-Guard Road to the Interior
Chapter 109 - Banned AbstractChapter 110 - Hear the Wind SleepChapter 111 - The First-Timer ConditionChapter 112 - Daidoji Shinsuke: The Voice
Chapter 113 - Naomi (A Fool's "It's Hot")Chapter 114 - Adult Go-AheadChapter 115 - The Double-BindersChapter 116 - The Last Defoliation
Chapter 117 - The Grapes of DisappointmentChapter 118 - Hunt of a New LaborerChapter 119 - Multiple Full CirclesChapter 120 - One Thousand and One Christmasses
Chapter 121 - The Individualism of PassingChapter 122 - Comparing AbyssesChapter 123 - Gaman-esqueChapter 124 - The Emergency That Became a Nun
Chapter 125 - Marco Polo's SetsubunChapter 126 - The Sweet GirlChapter 127 - The Way to HellChapter 128 - The Measles of Madison County
Chapter 129 - Time Stories of RussiaChapter 130 - The Loser BookChapter 131 - The Forest of Flower KeepersChapter 132 - The Woman in the Yellow Sands
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This is a locked chapterChapter 122 - Comparing Abysses
About This Chapter
The narrator laments the fact that the second generation is doing so well compared to the first generation. He feels that people are comparing themselves to other people, and that they don't understand how to compare themselves to others. He compares the rulers of the world to a sheet of paper, comparing everything to a single ruler. The narrator feels that he is in despair over these rulers.
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Chapter 17 - Sister-in-Law, I'm an AristocratChapter 18 - Leap Before You Lock EyesChapter 19 - That Is Why You Are to Flee, Follow Me! PhilostratusChapter 20 - Because It Is So Unstable, I Went to Search the Skies
Chapter 21 - It's Way Too Gross in This Sad TownChapter 22 - I've Read Books Full of ShameChapter 23 - A Cultured Man Was Waiting for the Rain to Stop Under the Rashomon GateChapter 24 - The Namayatsuhashi Must Be Burned
Chapter 25 - I Am Amakudari. I Still Don't Have Any Work to DoChapter 26 - As Gregor Samsa Awoke One Morning He Found Himself Carrying a MikoshiChapter 27 - Evening Primroses on Mt. Fuji Are a MistakeChapter 28 - I Was Thinking of Proving It This New Year
Chapter 29 - Because of My Hereditary Lack of Energy, I Have Been Hibernating Since ChildhoodChapter 30 - The Musashino of Today is Shrouded in DarknessChapter 31 - The Throwaway BronzeChapter 32 - I'm Sorry for Being Born on November 4th
Chapter 33 - How Do I Organize This One Space?Chapter 34 - Well, 'Tis Better to Be a Couple Than to Be by OneselfChapter 35 - I've Always Called That Person a LeftoverChapter 36 - Tsugaru Correspondence School
Chapter 37 - Ah, Silence...Chapter 38 - Chocolates Returned Without HesitationChapter 39 - The Story of JiroChapter 40 - Life is Like a One-Tier Doll Display
Chapter 41 - The White LieChapter 42 - DetoxChapter 43 - Goodbye, SnowChapter 44 - The Restaurant That Never Takes Orders
Chapter 45 - Weighing InChapter 46 - Vita SexualisChapter 47 - The Story of Dreamless HouichiChapter 48 - Be Prepared
Chapter 49 - The Secret CodeChapter 50 - Wake Up, Old-fashioned FolksChapter 51 - The Pororoca WaveChapter 52 - On the Assumption That We're Brother and Sister
Chapter 53 - Respect the OriginalChapter 54 - The Cat Who'd Heard It a Million TimesChapter 55 - What a PainChapter 56 - The Situation Is Terminal
Chapter 57 - The Benefits of ZeroChapter 58 - The Almost-Transparent-Failure BluesChapter 59 - Avoiding Love in the Center of the WorldChapter 60 - The Silver Time Difference
Chapter 61 - A Life Without ConnectionsChapter 62 - 100 InconveniencesChapter 63 - Prioritize This!Chapter 64 - Cowards Come in Groups
Chapter 65 - The Half Police ReportChapter 66 - The Worthless OperaChapter 67 - Whose Money Is It Anyway?Chapter 68 - Map of the Humanities
Chapter 69 - Confusing NamesChapter 70 - The ShieldChapter 71 - Duty and SoldierChapter 72 - Gone with the Numbers
Chapter 73 - Shichigosan-ShirouChapter 74 - You're Seventeen Years Old... Don't You Wanna Grab Your Wrinkles?Chapter 75 - Matasaburou Gets a ColdChapter 76 - Unwanted Items in the Tempei Era
Chapter 77 - The Turtle's FraudChapter 78 - A Woman's RoleChapter 79 - The Baby Who Swallowed a Go StoneChapter 80 - The Not So Narrow Gateway
Chapter 81 - Kamakura Myohonji Temple DismissalChapter 82 - Extra ChocolateChapter 83 - No Longer ShogunChapter 84 - Record of Ancient Stretching
Chapter 85 - Decorations at Tiffany'sChapter 86 - Glasses Girl's HouseChapter 87 - Fascism of Love and Total VictoryChapter 88 - Mountain Man's April Fools
Chapter 89 - "It's recharging", said Yada-chan in a quiet voiceChapter 90 - "Don't act like it's nothing!" Melos rebutted in a rageChapter 91 - If you work by reason, you grow rough-edged; if you choose to oar into sentiment's stream, it will sweep you away. Demanding your own way only serves to constrain you. However you look at it, the human world is a three-way standoffChapter 92 - Time to celebrate, though in this world there's nothing worth celebrating
Chapter 93 - I'm telling you, I'm not myself these days. Every little thing makes me so madChapter 94 - When the Fruits of Exposure RipenChapter 95 - You must profit from disaster at KinkakuChapter 96 - I will not return to Japan. I could not make that promise
Chapter 97 - Concealment in the RanksChapter 98 - The Serene Realm Beyond EntitlementChapter 99 - A Landing Amply RewardedChapter 100 - A Roadside Artist
Chapter 101 - All Quiet on the Unnecessary FrontChapter 102 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. SeedChapter 103 - Wuthering BlightsChapter 104 - Doctor Kahogo
Chapter 105 - The Releaser in the RyeChapter 106 - Rekka-RyūsuiChapter 107 - Spy Nut PuddingChapter 108 - The Off-Guard Road to the Interior
Chapter 109 - Banned AbstractChapter 110 - Hear the Wind SleepChapter 111 - The First-Timer ConditionChapter 112 - Daidoji Shinsuke: The Voice
Chapter 113 - Naomi (A Fool's "It's Hot")Chapter 114 - Adult Go-AheadChapter 115 - The Double-BindersChapter 116 - The Last Defoliation
Chapter 117 - The Grapes of DisappointmentChapter 118 - Hunt of a New LaborerChapter 119 - Multiple Full CirclesChapter 120 - One Thousand and One Christmasses
Chapter 121 - The Individualism of PassingChapter 122 - Comparing AbyssesChapter 123 - Gaman-esqueChapter 124 - The Emergency That Became a Nun
Chapter 125 - Marco Polo's SetsubunChapter 126 - The Sweet GirlChapter 127 - The Way to HellChapter 128 - The Measles of Madison County
Chapter 129 - Time Stories of RussiaChapter 130 - The Loser BookChapter 131 - The Forest of Flower KeepersChapter 132 - The Woman in the Yellow Sands
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