- Haruki Murakami
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
Haruki Murakami • Kafka on the Shore
“I have always been able to remember everything about you from the side. Your profile, the way you walk, how you talk—that’s the way I always think of you. From the front, I can’t recall a thing. Strange, isn’t it?”
—Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?
Haruki Murakami • Norwegian Wood
Take, for instance, the dream-world in which time does not flow but sticks, adhering each town to a particular point in history and each person to a particular point in life. There is no shared stream of present in this world — only islands of neighboring solitudes, each suspended in a different moment of a different past: "The tragedy of this worl... See more