(urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan

[Dan]

Oddly enough, i just finished reading There Are Doors this morning.

It was the best Philip K. Dick novel I ever read that was not written by 
Philip K. Dick.

What of Mr. Klamm's relationship to Mr. Green? Same guy at two different 
times or just two different blokes in the same circumstances (only one is 
beginiing his pursuit and the other nearing the end)?

Dan


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>Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:15:28 -0500
>From: "James Wynn" <thewynns at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: (urth) "There Are Doors" Comes To Japan
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>Just a general obsession with dolls...treating them like people ala the
>concern that chaining them would be cruel. My first thought when I read the
>article was TAD.
>  (shrug)
>
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>From: "Maru Dubshinki" <marudubshinki at gmail.com>
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>?
>I'm afraid I plumb missed the 'There are doors' connection- I don't
>see how it ties in. Explanation please?
>
>~Maru
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>On 5/23/05, James Wynn <thewynns at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > Japanese man gets jail time for 'kidnapping' dolls
> >
> > May 23, 6:12 AM (ET)
> >
> > TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese man has been sentenced to five-and-a-half
> > years
> > in jail for snatching mannequins used by a cake shop chain to tout its
> > wares.
> > "Peko-chan," a round-eyed doll around the size of a six-year-old, has been
> > used by Fujiya Co. Ltd. to sell sweets for five decades and her grinning
> > countenance is a familiar sight in front of shops around Japan.
> >
> > Recently, however, she has become a favorite of collectors, leading to a
> > rash of "Peko-chan" snatchings.
> >
> > Takeishi Shibuya, 31, was convicted of stealing 15 of the large dolls,
> > valued at about 1.1 million yen ($10,170), a court official in Yamagata
> > prefecture, northern Japan, said on Monday.
> >
> > In several cases, Shibuya used pepper spray and spray paint to fend off
> > store employees, leading prosecutors to demand a sentence of nine years in
> > prison.
> >
> > "But he has reflected on his crimes and feels bad about what he did, so
> > the
> > sentence was lighter as a result," the official said.
> >
> > After a wave of "Peko-chan" disappearances last year, the company
> > suggested
> > chaining the dolls down, but customers complained that this would be
> > cruel.
> >
> >
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