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* The scene with the "worm-creature" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.

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* The scene with the "worm-creature" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.spine.
* The Oedipal prophecy is pretty terrifying. Kafka seems destined to fulfill it despite all his efforts to the contrary, and how badly he wants to ''not'' go through with it, and it hangs over the whole plot like a looming axe.

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Johnnie Walker is the main antagonist and his death sets off the rest of the plot. Not a BLAM.


* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, [[spoiler: Johnnie Walker]], which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as what transpired is never mentioned in detail again.
** Actually, though the event itself is not mentioned again, [[spoiler:Johnnie Walker]] appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. [[spoiler: He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead. "Johnnie Walker" may possibly have been the evil worm-being trying to get into the Entrance Stone. It might not qualify as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]], but it's still bizarre.]]
** In addition, the event has some bearing on the other plotline involving Kafka.
** AND [[spoiler: Nakata admits to Hoshino that he killed Johnnie Walker.]]

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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, [[spoiler: Johnnie Walker]], which might qualify Walker, is incredibly disturbing and incredibly tense. Especially as he’s essentially holding a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as what transpired is never mentioned in detail again.
** Actually, though
cat hostage to goad the event itself is not mentioned again, [[spoiler:Johnnie Walker]] old man into killing him.
** Johnnie Walker
appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. [[spoiler: He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead. "Johnnie Walker" may possibly have been Walker” also is the disguise of the evil worm-being trying to get into the Entrance Stone. It might not qualify as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]], but it's still bizarre.]]
** In addition, the event has some bearing on the other plotline involving Kafka.
** AND [[spoiler: Nakata admits to Hoshino
worm being mentioned below, making that he killed Johnnie Walker.scene worse.]]
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** AND [[spoiler: Nakata admits to Hoshino that he killed Johnnie Walker.]]

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** AND [[spoiler: Nakata admits to Hoshino that he killed Johnnie Walker.]]]]
* The scene with the "worm-creature" is enough to send chills down anyone's spine.
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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, [[spoiler "Johnnie Walker"]], which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as what transpired is never mentioned in detail again.

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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, [[spoiler "Johnnie Walker"]], [[spoiler: Johnnie Walker]], which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as what transpired is never mentioned in detail again.

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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, "Johnnie Walker", which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as it is never mentioned again.
** Actually, though the event itself is not mentioned again, [[spoiler:Johnnie Walker]] appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. [[spoiler: He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead.]] "Johnnie Walker" may possibly have been the evil worm-being trying to get into the Entrance Stone. It might not qualify as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]], but it's still bizarre.
** In addition, the event has some bearing on the other plotline involving Kafka.

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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, [[spoiler "Johnnie Walker", Walker"]], which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as it what transpired is never mentioned in detail again.
** Actually, though the event itself is not mentioned again, [[spoiler:Johnnie Walker]] appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. [[spoiler: He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead.]] "Johnnie Walker" may possibly have been the evil worm-being trying to get into the Entrance Stone. It might not qualify as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]], but it's still bizarre.
bizarre.]]
** In addition, the event has some bearing on the other plotline involving Kafka.Kafka.
** AND [[spoiler: Nakata admits to Hoshino that he killed Johnnie Walker.]]
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* The scene with Nakata and the cat killer, "Johnnie Walker", which might qualify as a BigLippedAlligatorMoment as it is never mentioned again.
** Actually, though the event itself is not mentioned again, [[spoiler:Johnnie Walker]] appears again toward the end of the novel in the mini-chapter The Boy Named Crow. [[spoiler: He has apparently completed his flute made of cat souls, and Crow is helpless to stop him no matter how horribly he can disfigure the "man", because he's already dead.]] "Johnnie Walker" may possibly have been the evil worm-being trying to get into the Entrance Stone. It might not qualify as a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]], but it's still bizarre.
** In addition, the event has some bearing on the other plotline involving Kafka.

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