Haruki Murakami

After Dark

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Lauri

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once that happens, you've had it: things'll never be the same. All you can do is go on living alone down there in the darkness.

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Francesca

Of what value is a civilisation that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

The trombone and me: it was a meeting arranged by destiny.

Our point of view, as an imaginary camera, picks up and lingers over things like this in the room. We are invisible, anonymous intruders. We look. We listen. We note odours. But we are not physically present in the place, and we leave behind no traces. We follow the same rules, so to speak, as orthodox time travellers. We observe but we do not intervene.

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes and it's not the same as in daytime.

He is one of those unidentifiable people who inhabit the city at night.

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