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* [[Erotic Dream]]: Introducing Creta Kano: [[Mental Affair|prostitute of the mind!]]
* [[Flaying Alive]]: Lieutenant Mamiya witnessed this happen during his service in Manchuria during [[World War 2]]; his recollection of the event to Toru is pure [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]].
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* [[Good Girls Avoid Abortion]]: Averted. After {{spoiler|Kumiko}} finds out she's pregnant, she gets an abortion despite her husband supporting the idea of raising a child.
** Then again, it's debatable how much of a "good girl" she is.
* [[Good People Have Good Sex]]: Sadly subverted.
* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Toru gets an inky blue mark on his face during one of his trips to the hotel.
* [[Harassing Phone Call]]: The novel begins with the narrator keeps getting phone calls from some an unidentified woman trying to initiate phone sex, which starts the chain of strange events that follow him after.
* [[Haunted House]]: The infamous hanging house, though it falls more under [[Indian Burial Ground]].
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* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: "Boris The Manskinner".
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Toru and May.
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: The book is practically ''built'' on symbolic dreams.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: The passwords for Cinnamon's computer are "Zoo" and "Sub", relating to the stories his mother told him.
** Later on, invoked by Ushikawa.
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* [[We Named the Monkey Jack]]: The narrator named his cat Noburu Wataya after his hated brother-in-law. The cat gets a better name later on, after Toru decides that it was unfair to the animal.
* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: The whole book is LOADED with symbolism, especially in the narrator's dreams.
* [[Why Couldn't You Be Different?]]?: Kumiko's parents were never satisfied with her, and constantly compared her to her sister, even forcing her to play the piano like her sister used to before she died. {{spoiler|This is the direct cause for her crippling inferiority complex, which is later manipulated by Noburu.}}
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