You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.
Haruki MurakamiHave you ever had that feelingโthat youโd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
Haruki MurakamiBut this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it a name, but the word refused to come to mind. Iโm terrible at finding the right words for things. Iโm sure Tolstoy would have been able to come up with exactly the right word
Haruki MurakamiHe appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.
Haruki MurakamiHe felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasnโt able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.
Haruki MurakamiIt is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.
Haruki Murakami