![]() Infecting each other like this is how we maintain ourselves as human is what I think. And I probably infect others with the way I speak too. Izumi at her previous store came to help out, and she dressed so much like Mrs. Izumi came, Sasaki started sounding just like her when she said, “Good job, see you tomorrow!” Once a woman who had gotten on well with Mrs. When some of Sugawara’s band members came into the store recently they all dressed and spoke just like her. My speech is especially infected by everyone around me and is currently a mix of that of Mrs. Izumi, 30 percent Sugawara, 20 percent the manager, and the rest absorbed from past colleagues such as Sasaki, who left six months ago, and Okasaki, who was our supervisor until a year ago. Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, which won Japan’s Akutagawa Prize, is a novel about workboth the paid labor its female protagonist Keiko performs in her job at a convenience store chain in Tokyo, as well as the emotional labor she performs in her exhausting attempts to appear normal to friends and family. ![]() ![]() I am currently made up of 30 percent Mrs. “My present self is formed almost completely of the people around me. ![]()
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