Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear just because you can’t see what’s going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That’s the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won’t make time stand still.
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Happy New Year 2020.
A bit of shape and form has disappeared from the world, increasing the amount of nothingness.
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble.
– Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark
In a beautiful world of broken dreams.
Diving deeper into pure nothingness.
Fading into the Abyss.
Further dissolution.
Contaminated by darkness.
Unwillingly and unconsciously feeding the Abyss.
