This story was simple, but raised a lot of issues I'll be chewing on for a while. I finished the story with the feeling I get contemplating a Ko-An, like the two sides of my brain no longer line up quite like they used to. 
 The only downside was the annoying format. The copy I picked up was published as just the short story in a notebook format so the reader flips the pages up vertically rather than side-to-side.