![]() Humanity is so multi-faceted that it is impossible to say whether or not an individual can maintain their humanity without their sense of logic and reasoning or without their emotions and memories. If you take away a person’s ability to rationalize through prior memory, what do you have left? Would he still be human? The idea of a fundamental binary of identity is on display front and center here, asking to what extent our idea of self-hood is defined by our logical nature versus our creative impulses. ![]() The prose in the End of the World chapters is also markedly more fluid and poetic (almost dream-like), while the Hardboiled chapters tend to feel more cold and distant in its style. This is another interesting binary between the two stories, the Calcutec is struggling to preserve his identity while the End of the World narrator is struggling to discover his. The other narrative, The End of the World, introduces us to another unknown narrator who can’t remember anything about his previous life. The protagonist of Hard-boiled Wonderland, a calcutec, uses the binary property of his brain to process data, which is the main source of capital for almost everything in his world. ![]() This can be seen immediately from both the title and the chapters, which alternate between the Wonderland and the End of the world. At the core of Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the idea of the binary, two separate objects slowly coming together as one. ![]()
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