By Haruki Murakami
It is a narrative particle accelerator that zooms among Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. technology fiction, detective tale and put up smooth manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, "Hard-boiled Wonderland and the tip of the realm" is the travel de strength that expanced Haruki Murakami's foreign following, monitoring one man's descent into the kafkaesque underworld farce, compassion and detachment, slang and philosophy. the result's a wildly creative fable and a meditation at the many makes use of of the brain.
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I cleared the table and undid the tape and newspaper. It was an animal skull. Great, I thought, just great. Did the old duffer really imag-ine I'd be overjoyed to receive this? He had to have a screw loose, giving a skull for a present. The skull was similar to a horse's in shape, but considerably smaller. From my limited knowledge of biology, I deduced that the skull had been attached to the shoulders of a narrow-faced, hoofed, herbivorous, and not overly large species of mammal. Let's see now.
He spreads wide my right eye with his fingers and pushes the knife into my eyeball. Yet as the Gatekeeper said, it does not hurt, nor am I afraid. The knife sinks into my eyeball soft and silent, as if dipping into jelly. He does the same with my left eye. "When you are no longer a Dreamreader, the scars will vanish," says the Gatekeeper, putting away the tray and knife. "These scars are the sign of the Dreamreader. But as long as you bear this sign, you must beware of light. Hear me now, your eyes cannot see the light of day.
They've got supermarkets out there where you can shop and not say a word. The child really likes supermarkets, she's always going to them. Office to supermarket, supermarket to office. " "The child likes the office. It's got a kitchen and a shower, everything she needs. " I drank my coffee. "How'd you do it? " "Lipreading. " "Lipreading, of course," the old man said, nodding with approval. "A right effective technique. I know a bit myself. " I hastened to reply. "Granted, lipreading's an extremely primitive technique.