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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Haruki Murakami

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Can I talk? I'll keep real quiet, and you don't have to answer. You can even fall asleep. I don't mind." Kumiko came home at seven-thirty. She had been arriving later and later over the past month. It was not unusual for her to return after eight, and sometimes even after ten. Now that I was at home preparing dinner, she no longer had to hurry The central story concerns one Toru Okada, a gofer at a Tokyo law firm who has recently quit his job. Toru leaves his house one day to look for his missing cat and suddenly finds himself thrown into a series of bizarre adventures. Not long after the cat Cinammon Akasaka - the son of Nutmeg. He does not speak but uses a strange form of sign language to communicate. He carries out the wishes of his mother but is exceptionally good at what he does and what he does involves looking out for Toru on many levels. Q2: Who said this: “Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed”?

She took the finger from my wrist and drank down the rest of her cola. I knew the glass was empty from the sound of the ice.It's squishy on the outside, and the deeper you go inside, the harder it gets. I want to cut open the skin and take out the squishy stuff, use a scalpel and some kind of spatula to get through it, and the closer you get to the center, I don't give a damn. Do what you like," I said. "Put something on if you want to. Stay naked if you want to. Sorry, but I'm not interested in telephone games like this. I've got a lot of things I have to-" I couldn't read anymore. I decided to iron shirts instead. Which is what I always do when I'm upset. It's an old habit. I divide the job into twelve precise stages, beginning with the collar (outer surface) and ending with the Side note: with this novel Murakami After his meeting with Creta, Toru receives a letter from a man named Mamiya, who served in the Japanese Army with Mr. Honda, Toru’s former spiritual advisor. Mamiya informs Toru that Mr. Honda passed away, and so Mamiya is delivering his keepsakes. Apparently, he left a keepsake for Toru, and Mamiya wants to know if he can bring it to him.

of my body. The sun poured into me with a strange heaviness. Whenever the girl moved her glass, the ice clinked inside it like a cowbell. conventional detective story and, in doing so, suggest that the world is a mysterious place, that the lines between reality and fantasy are porous, that reason and logic are useless tools in an incomprehensible world.What's wrong?" There was a note of tension in her voice. She knew what it meant for me to be ironing. Maybe he was in debt. It was like they ran away-just cleared out one night. About a year ago, I think. Left the place to rot and breed cats. My mother's always complaining." it features a very ordinary man as its hero _ a passive, affectless sort of guy with a lowly job and even lower expectations. Like those earlier novels, it sends its hero off on a long, strange wild goose chase that turns into a sort of She perched her sunglasses on her forehead, squinted at the yard, and lowered her glasses again, exhaling a cloud of smoke. In the interval, I saw that she had a two-inch cut next to her left eye-the kind of cut that would probably leave a

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