I'm certain you see that."
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"I do see it," Kino murmured.
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o He was groggy; he seemed to need more sleep whenever he sensed Kino was "in a dangerous mood." She had to acknowledge that she was in such a mood now.
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He came wide-awake when she said, "We're going back to the history museum."
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"Are you sure you want to do that?" he asked.
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"No. But we're going."
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"And what are we planning to do when we get there?"
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"I don't have a plan."
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"Okay...and I thought 'I have a plan' were the scariest words I'd ever heard you say."
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o Kino thought of the Tatana mothers who had died cradling their children in just that way.
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o Kino schooled her face and voice to show no emotion and hold no inflection.
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o "You proposed the slaughter of the Tatana people? That was your idea?" The words left Kino's mouth before she could stop them.
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(Only ‘The words left Kino’s mouth before she could stop them’ was added)
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o "Curator, I don't understand your reasoning. Perhaps in the new version of war the combatants don't die but innocents do. At least with the old way, those who died were those who fought. And their deaths were, in a way, of their own choosing. The Tatana people have not chosen to fight or to die."
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(Modified, original simply says “I don’t know whether you are wrong, or the people of the past were right.”)
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o She had meant only to break the staff, but the bullet had deflected. She started to say something, to deny that she'd intended to kill, but she could only watch silently as the thirsty earth swallowed up his blood.
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o "What's that?" he asked.
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"A gift...for the spirit of the dead."
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Kino knelt by the dead man and placed her silver cup on his breast.
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Chapter 6: Coliseum (JP: Chapter 4: Colosseum)
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• Passages which are in the Jap version, but modified:
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o "Kino!" he shrieked. "Cut it out!"
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Kino released the accelerator, still laughing. "What―You've never wanted to fly?"
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"Fly?" fumed Hermes. "Fly? I'm a motorcycle, for goodness' sake! I belong on the ground. Fly, my tailpipe. I thought my frame was going to bend!
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(Expanded from “I’m not fine, Kino! I thought my frame was going to bend!”)
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o "Know what the other Kino said about a motorcycle's top speed?"
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She paused a beat, then asked, "No, what did he say?"
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"He said that a motorcycle's top speed is the speed at which it comes apart."
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(Hermes doesn’t mention anything about the original Kino)
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o "I don't know when this place was built or by whom," Kino said, covering his unease with sarcasm, "but they did a terrible job. The designer had as little talent as the builder had skill. Shoddy, shoddy worksmanship."
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(It’s not Kino, but Hermes who criticized the building, and there’s no ‘covering of unease with sarcasm’)
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• Names
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JP: The King and the palace guard (no names)
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TP: King Yukio and Taro
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• Sentences not in the Japanese version
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o "Say 'hello' to the Woodsman. D'you think it qualifies as a weapon―boy?"
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o "Yeah. Fun. You remember fun?"
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o "So-o‐o," said Kino, exhaling slowly,
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o If the awarded points for style, Kino reflected, I might be in trouble."
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o Ooo, thought Kino. Scary.
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o A darling child. A precious child, but he told me he had no mother or father.
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o A woman's nature. Perhaps she should understand. Perhaps she merely wanted to understand. She thought of her own mother and shrugged.
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o "Sorry," said Kino, "one mother was more than enough for me."
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o Is that the way of the beautiful world? Does serenity always return even after the most devastating of shockwaves?
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Prologue and Epilogue (no title) (JP: In the Forest b & a)
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• The following is an extension of Hermes’ blooper time, not found in the Jap version:
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"Is that like a goblin or something?" She sat up. "You're not afraid that there's something lurking in the forest that eats motorcycles?"
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"No! You know, a syllo-something. It's a sort of argument. You know: all penguins are birds; birds fly; therefore penguins can fly."
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"Penguins can't fly," Kino observed.
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"Okay. So, it doesn't work so well for penguins, but you get the idea. What's that called a ―Syllo―"
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(The pun used in TP is syllogog – syllogism; original pun is difficult to preserve: sandankenpou ‐ sandanronpou or in English, three-part constitution – syllogism)
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She never knew when she might encounter something in the dark of night, especially in the great, leafy, whispering woods. Maybe even a motorcycle-eating syllogog.