arcade machine.
In this novel, a telephone repairman uses the example of a mother dog looking after her puppies to explain fixing a switch-panel to two characters who live with the narrator. Those characters leave the protagonist after he almost goes deaf by sneezing during an ear cleaning, and earlier, a Spanish professor brings the narrator to an abandoned former-chicken processing warehouse. This novel's narrator describes Raymond Maloney as lacking the "mythic color of the Wright Brothers," and another character in this novel has a Gatsby-like fascination with a far-off beacon before telling the Chinese bartender, J, that he's leaving town.  The protagonist lives with the twins "208" and "209," named for the numbers on the sweatshirts they wear, and is briefly obsessed with "The Spaceman," a device produced by the Gilbert & Sands Company.  For 10 points, name this novel about the "Rat" by Haruki Murakami, named for an ? arcade machine.
In this novel, a telephone repairman uses the example of a mother dog looking after her puppies to explain fixing a switch-panel to two characters who live with the narrator.
{Pinball}, 1973 [or {1973}-{nen no pinb?ru}]