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* [[Mrs. Robinson]]: Miss Saeki, who might also be Kafka's mother.
* [[New Weird]]
* [[One
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]
* [[Painting the Fourth Wall]]: In some ways more subtle than others.
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** Things {{spoiler|[[You Can't Fight Fate|go south.]] }}
* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: {{spoiler|Saeki's lover was killed by student revolutionaries who mistook him for a university official and refused to listen to his denials of this}}.
* [[Shout
* [[Shrug of God]]: Murakami specifically states in his blog that the interpretation of {{spoiler|Saeki and Kafka being related}}, as well many other parts of the novel, are all up to the reader.
* [[Sibling Yin-Yang]]: Oshima is charming, well-read, and physically weak. His older brother is an asocial surfer. {{spoiler|Subverted when Kafka finally meets Oshima's brother. Oshima is really just as asocial, but Kafka is somehow able to tease conversation out of both brothers}}.
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* [[Transsexual]]: {{spoiler|Oshima is female-to-male transsexual attracted to men. He's intersex as well, having underdeveloped breasts and no period}}.
* [[Two Lines, No Waiting]]
* [[Wham! Episode]]: In chapter 38, Nakata and Hoshino finally find the place they're looking for. And where should it be but {{spoiler|Komura Memorial Library}}?
* [[Wham! Line]]: Oshima certainly knows how to shut up [[Straw Feminist|Straw Feminists]].
{{quote| ''"First of all, {{spoiler|I'm not a male}}," Oshima announces.<br />
A dumbfounded silence follows on the part of everybody. I gulp and shoot Oshima a glance.<br />
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