You’ll be trapped here forever.” Boku doesn’t want to leave the Librarian behind. “If you let me die, you’ll be one of the Townsfolk. Boku’s shadow is not as sick as he seems. Many more will die by tomorrow.” The shadow’s quarters. To the laundromat.Ĭhapter 32: The Gatekeeper splitting firewood. Pink brassiere, pink panties, pink panty hose, pink skirt, and pastel pink blouse. I can’t really explain over the phone, but I’m going far away.” The librarian was the person who had cleaned his apartment. “I won’t be around from tomorrow afternoon. What day is it? The long haired cab driver, “I only pick up rockers.” “In ten, fifteen years, it’s going to be rock taxis all over, eh? World’s going to be baaad.” The clean apartment. Ballard novel, but let it wait until I was out of the picture.” The chubby girl points out that rain is easy on the eyes.

Where are their tickets? “It could rain for a whole month like in a J.G. A peace deeper than anything you have ever known.” Boku’s shadow is dying, “A person has the right to see his own shadow under these circumstances.”Ĭhapter 31: The subway tracks. No victory, no defeat.” “Lay down your mind and peace will come. Is there not something marvelous a bout this? We hurt no one and no one gets hurt. We have nothing to achieve by activities, nowhere to get to. So in that sense, it is a very pure hole…They dig their hole because they want to dig…It has no special meaning, does not transport them anywhere. “I seem to remember this happening to me before…the light, the glare, my eyes tearing up.” Back to his place.Ĭhapter 30: The events in the Woods at the Power Station seem like a dream. Whistling Peter and Gordon’s I Go to Pieces. “My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card.” Flash cuts of memory, “Idea are warping off in weird direction.” Why hasn’t he pissed? The exit. “I think it would be wonderful if I could follow you into that world where you’re going.” Remembering the couple listening to Duran Duran. “Did it matter to anybody that my reality would end in another twenty-eight hours and forty-two minutes?” The passage. The ancient Greeks had style.” Can he forgive grandfather? Are the System and the Laundry run by the same person? The stone wall. At least Orpheus didn’t have to balance laundry on his head. All the varieties of religious experience in the world, yet when it comes to death, it all boils down to the same thing. Orpheus ferried across the Styx to the Land of the Dead. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldĬhapter 29: Swimming.

Hard boiled murakami