1Q84: Book 3 (2Q84 2)

People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.

The two different worlds were silently at odds within her, fighting over her consciousness, like the mouth of a river where the seawater and the freshwater flow in.

As his father lay on this plain bed in the sanatorium by the shore, at the same time he might very well be surrounded by scenes and memories invisible to others, in the still darkness of a back room in his own vacant house.

Absconded

“But once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

Two story lines at work, with different starting points but running parallel to each other.

It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be, But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me.

“We came into this world so that we could meet. We didn’t realize it ourselves, but that was the purpose of us coming here. We faced all kinds of complications – things that didn’t make sense, things that defied explanation. Weird things, gory things, sad things.

As he wrote, his mind was living in that world. Even when he lay down his pen and stood up from the desk, his mind remained there. There was a special sensation of his body and his mind beginning to separate, and he could no longer distinguish the real world from the fictional.