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3.03 - What Happened in the Night

Strange intermission, with no Toru Okada, but ‘a boy’ who hears the Wind-Up Bird and witnesses two anonymous men roaming in the dark, one climbing a tree and never coming back down, the other digging a hole and burying something. First thing that comes to mind is the ‘thing’ that was taken from Creta Kano, or maybe Kumiko’s inborn baby?

3.02 - Waking from Hibernation • One more Name Card • The Namelessness of Money

Money has no name, of course. And if it did have a name, it would no longer be money. What gave money its true meaning was its dark-night namelessness, its breathtaking interchangeability.

Book Two: Bird as Prophet
July to October 1984

2.16 - The Simplest Thing • Revenge in a Sophisticated Form • The Thing in the Guitar Case

2.15 - The Only Bad Thing That Ever Happened in May Kasahara’s House • May Kasahara on the Gooshy Source of Heat

2.14 - Creta Kano’s New Departure

2.13 - Creta Kano’s Story Continued

My unfeeling flesh was not my flesh.

2.12 - Discovered When Shaving • Discovered When Waking

2.11 - Hunger as Pain • Kumiko’s Long letter • Bird as Prophet

Before the mystery of May Kasahara’s absence is solved, there’s the mystery of Creta Kano’s absence.
Kumiko’s letter highly upsetting, throwing me back years and years. The sense of not being good enough. And also anger, for the assumption that this would be a one-way decision for her to make on her own…