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We all know the big bad is coming, and there’s nothing we can do to stop it, yet we still go to our jobs and we chitchat about nothing important with coworkers and we go to dinner and we go to the mall and we go to our dentist appointments
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“Murakami played with the formulas of mass literature—what is elsewhere termed formulaic fiction—but at the last minute subverted the expectations of those formulas and left the reader wondering what had just happened. This to some degree accounted for the peculiar sense of simultaneous thrill and discouragement one often felt at the end of some of these texts.”
― The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
― The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
“Dârayavahush”
― The Burning White
― The Burning White
“Gavin’s guile”
― The Burning White
― The Burning White
“Anyone,’ Avallac’h wiped his hands on a rag, ‘can foretell the future. And everyone does it, for it is simple. It is no great art to foretell it. The art is in foretelling it accurately.”
― The Tower of Swallows
― The Tower of Swallows
“No need to worry. Time is the remedy for your concerns. It is the key for all things that possess form. True, time does not last forever, but as long as you have it, it is remarkably efficacious. So look forward to the future, my friends.”
― Killing Commendatore
― Killing Commendatore
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