Kangaroo Notebook Quotes

“A keener interest in trinkets of self-adornment than in people is a symptom of alienation.”
― Kōbō Abe, Kangaroo Notebook

“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.”
― Kōbō Abe, Kangaroo Notebook

“According to Fleetfin's research, if you sun-dry the sexual organs of a male and female squid and bring them into contact at the rate of three hundred fifty feet per fifteen seconds or less (the average running speed of a third-year junior high school student), you'll create an explosion surpassing dynamite.”
― Kōbō Abe, Kangaroo Notebook