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Creta Kano: “Do you see what I mean? The transformation that I had experienced was undoubtedly something right and true, but the transformation had been caused by something filthy, something wrong and false. This contradiction-this split-would torment me for a very long time."

Welp. He went into the well. He’s in there now. I don’t even know why. Who knows if he will be able to get out.

There’s nothing inside that head of yours but garbage and rocks. - Noboru Wataya to Toru Okada

As I mulled these things over, I began to feel incredibly sleepy. This was not an ordinary kind of sleepiness. It was an intense, even violent, sleepiness. Sleep was stripping me of consciousness the way the clothes might be stripped from the body of an unresisting person. - Toru Okada

I opened it, to find nothing inside. It was absolutely empty. All that Mr. Honda had left me was an empty box.

“…but I was not, in the true sense of the word, alive. I simply performed the mundane tasks that were handed to me, one after another. - Lieutenant Mamiya to Toru Okada

“If anything, there is something in his quiet manner that softened people’s hearts. He was utterly serene.”

“Preparing to leave the house, Kumiko asked me to zip her dress up. It was a tight fit, and closing the zipper took some doing. She was wearina a lovely fragrance behind her ears--something perfect for a summer morning. "New cologne?" I asked. Instead of answering, she glanced at her watch and reached up to fix her hair.
"I'm late," she said, and took her handbag from the table.” — Homegirl is cheating.

“It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it be-came, and the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving.” - Toru Okada

Creta Kano is visiting today at 1pm. Creta is Malta’s younger sister, and her representative.