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t opens with a man sitting in a room. The man does not remember his name, and a camera hidden in the ceiling takes a picture of him once a second. He spends the single day spanned by the book being looked after, questioned and reading a fragmentary narrative. Mr. Blank learns he is accused of horrible crimes. But this may or may not be true, the narrative veers toward ambiguity.
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t opens with a man sitting in a room. The man does not remember his name, and a camera hidden in the ceiling takes a picture of him once a second. He spends the single day spanned by the book being looked after, questioned and reading a fragmentary narrative. Mr. Blank learns he is accused of horrible crimes. But this may or may not be true, the narrative veers toward ambiguity.
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