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First question: In the prologue, is Kino doing most of the speaking? It’s a bit hard to follow who is saying what, though I’m pretty sure it’s mostly just one of them speaking.
Just finished the prologue. Man the grammar point of よと思う came up a lot. My Dictionary of Basic Grammar was very useful. The prologue was a pretty easy read suprisingly. I think I got the gist of what was going on.
Apparently, the “hammer” is a part of the gun, though it took me some time to figure that out. From what I understand, that part is tied to the holster so that even if it falls, it’s connected to the holster.
For me this whole “this voice” “another voice” “yet another voice” was totally confusing.
Voices
p. 11
…人間の話す声が聞こえた。少年のぞうな、そして少し高い声だ。
This should be Kino.
p. 11
別の声が発言を促す像に聞いた。…男の子のようの声だった。
okey, that this must be Hermes.
p.12
最初の声は…
Okey, Kino is speaking again.
p. 12
別の声が答えた。
What? Another voice? But ther are only the two of them, right? Is there a third “person”?
By the way: How do you imagine Hermes to speak? Or better: can Hermes really think, or is he just Kinos imaginary friend, to whom Kino is talking?
Later people are reffering to things Hermes said, so they must kind of hear Hermes. I like the image of a young boy on a motorcycle, who is all day speaking to himself.