"Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe."
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
I have a confession. Despite mentioning him in my PhD, I have never read an entire Muarakami novel. Here, in my hotel room in Osaka, I think the time is right to make amends. He is after all one of the most significant magical realist's around.
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