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“I realized I was being crazy. I felt afraid of having no control over my thoughts, yet I couldn’t help it. There are millions of people in London, I said to myself. Millions of men and women. But then after a moment another voice responded: There are also millions of stars in the sky, but there’s life on only one of them.”

One of the more lovely passages I’ve read in a while.

This book has definitely leaned more into The Unconsoled vibes. Kind of regret that. I was really enjoying the story and now the plot kind of just seems to have been shoved aside in favor of abstractions and dreamlike scenes.

Well this has certainly taken a left turn. So far, this has been a fairly straightforward detective novel. But now it is throwing off strong The Unconsoled vibes. Glad I read that book first — allows me to have a better understanding of what Ishiguro is trying to accomplish here. Overall, I am enjoying this novel a lot.