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– Professor Inui is an old friend of the unnamed narrator and her family who works in the dermatology department at the university hospital. One night, he shows up at the narrator’s basement door and tells her that he and his family (his wife, daughter, and son) are going into hiding because he has been summoned by the Memory Police—just like the narrator’s mother was. He gives the unnamed narrator four statues of tapirs, made by the narrator’s mother, which the narrator later finds out have “disappeared” objects hidden inside of them. Professor Inui does not tell the narrator where he and his family are going, thinking that the narrator will be safer if she does not know the specifics. Later in the story, the narrator sees blue gloves that belong to the Inuis’ son in the back of a Memory Police’s truck, suggesting that the Inui family was unable to avoid being captured.
Professor Inui Quotes in The Memory Police
The The Memory Police quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Inui or refer to Professor Inui. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 5
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“It’s terribly kind of you to be concerned, but I think it would be best not to tell you anything about the safe house. It’s not that we’re worried you might let something slip—if that were the case, we would never have brought the sculptures here in the first place. But we can’t allow ourselves to cause you any more trouble than we already have. The more deeply you become involved, the more danger you’ll be in. You can’t be forced to reveal what you don’t know, but if you do know something, there’s no telling what they might do to get it out of you. So I beg of you, please don’t ask about the safehouse.”
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Chapter 22
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I’d heard rumors that people who had been hiding were forced to wander the streets when their homes were destroyed by the earthquake or the fires that followed it. And that the Memory Police had been rounding them up and taking them into custody one after the other. But I had no way to know whether the Inui family had actually been in that truck or not. All I could do was pray that someone had continued to cut the little boy’s fingernails and that the blue gloves were still protecting him.
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Professor Inui Quotes in The Memory Police
The The Memory Police quotes below are all either spoken by Professor Inui or refer to Professor Inui. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 5
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“It’s terribly kind of you to be concerned, but I think it would be best not to tell you anything about the safe house. It’s not that we’re worried you might let something slip—if that were the case, we would never have brought the sculptures here in the first place. But we can’t allow ourselves to cause you any more trouble than we already have. The more deeply you become involved, the more danger you’ll be in. You can’t be forced to reveal what you don’t know, but if you do know something, there’s no telling what they might do to get it out of you. So I beg of you, please don’t ask about the safehouse.”
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Chapter 22
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I’d heard rumors that people who had been hiding were forced to wander the streets when their homes were destroyed by the earthquake or the fires that followed it. And that the Memory Police had been rounding them up and taking them into custody one after the other. But I had no way to know whether the Inui family had actually been in that truck or not. All I could do was pray that someone had continued to cut the little boy’s fingernails and that the blue gloves were still protecting him.
