Crawl inside and you will find a futon spread over a tatami-mat floor, with a small television and reading lamp mounted on the wall.

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And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him.

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