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him constantly describing women’s breasts whenever any female charavter is intoduced is so fucking weird, other than that somewhat interesting

After we’d made our way deeper into the cave my sister discovered a small side cave a little ways off from the prescribed path. Its mouth was hidden in the shadows of the rocks. She was very interested in that little cave. “Don’t you think it looks like Alice’s rabbit hole?” she asked me.

You take something ordinary and something fantastical. Bundle up past, present and future, and mix it all together with a generous amount of metaphors and symbolism. The strange story of a nameless narrator, and the persons he comes across, is classic Murakami to the last word. As always there’s a lot of loose ends, but I loved it nonetheless. A meticulous story about paint and beholding.