Status Updates From Killing Commendatore

listen we all know the way murakami writes women is atrocious but WOW he always manages to surprise me with just HOW bad it is 😭

If you think about it, it's akin to defining yourself as compared with another person. The difference is self-evident, but still difficult to verbalize. As you said, you can perhaps only understand it as a kind of tangent produced when external and internal pressure combine to create it.