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3.08 - Down in the Well

3.07 - The Mystery of the Hanging House

Nutmeg ended up buying the Miyawaki lot for Toru Okada, all under strictest secrecy

3.06 - Nutmeg and Cinnamon

3.05 - A Place You Can Figure Out If You Think About It Really, Really Hard (May Kasahara’s Point of View: 1)

Another break away from Toru Okada, this time a letter from May Kasahara who remains surprisingly open to keep confiding in Okada. Strange, arguably mad thoughts…

3.04 Buying New Shoes • The Thing That Came Back Home

More mysteries. I didn’t perceive the exchange with the unseen small woman as something that she’d be paying for but rather as a treatment or a ritual favor. Not at all as an act of prostitution by Toru Okada.

And apparently,the exception of a major change as predicted by Malta’s Kano has occurred. How else would it be possible for the cat to return?

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?

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.

3.01 The Wind-Up Bird in Winter

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