This book is so rich in intertextuality, that it simply blows my mind. I can just imagine how calculated each aspect of this tale must have been. It has been difficult to peel my thinking away from traditional ways of viewing literature, not to mention that dang plot diagram. It's comforting to know that things don't really need to make sense to make sense. This is such a revelatory idea for me. It reminds me of my feelings towards math. Math is a constant and has a set way of doing it, and it makes sense (although I may not always get it)...but the thing that I most hate about math is the thing that I also most appreciate about it. I feel the same about this book. It hurls you into a realm of uncertainties, and miscalculated conclusions, which frustrate me, yet one can't help but feel a certain amount of comfort at the aspect of an unbound and uncertain, yet certainly free, future. This is what keeps me turning the pages.
Peace
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The Talking Heads have a lyric that goes "Stop making sense!" I'm glad that Murakami - and maybe some of the past and future texts in this class - are liberating you from the tyranny of realism and that "plot diagram." You're truly excellent at letting texts affect and challenge you. This is an important trait that most readers simply don't have.
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