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Also by Haruki Murakami
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Part 1: The Idea Made Visible
Prologue
Chapter 1: If the Surface Is Fogged Up
Chapter 2: They Might All Go to the Moon
Chapter 3: Just a Physical Reflection
Chapter 4: From a Distance, Most Things Look Beautiful
Chapter 5: He Has Stopped Breathing…His Limbs Are Cold
Chapter 6: At This Point He’s a Faceless Client
Chapter 7: For Better or for Worse, It’s an Easy Name to Remember
Chapter 8: A Blessing in Disguise
Chapter 9: Exchanging Fragments with Each Other
Chapter 10: As We Push Our Way Through the Lush Green Grass
Chapter 11: The Moonlight Shone Beautifully on Everything
Chapter 12: Like That Nameless Mailman
Chapter 13: At This Point It’s Merely a Hypothesis
Chapter 14: But Something This Strange Is a First
Chapter 15: This Is Only the Beginning
Chapter 16: A Relatively Good Day
Chapter 17: How Could I Miss Something That Important?
Chapter 18: Curiosity Didn’t Just Kill the Cat
Chapter 19: Can You See Anything Behind Me?
Chapter 20: The Moment When Existence and Nonexistence Coalesce
Chapter 21: It’s Small, but Should You Cut with It, Blood Will Certainly Come Out
Chapter 22: The Invitation Is Still Open
Chapter 23: They All Really Exist
Chapter 24: Merely Gathering Raw Data
Chapter 25: How Much Loneliness the Truth Can Cause
Chapter 26: The Composition Couldn’t Be Improved
Chapter 27: Even Though You Remember Exactly What It Looked Like
Chapter 28: Franz Kafka Was Quite Fond of Slopes
Chapter 29: Any Unnatural Elements
Chapter 30: It Really Depends on the Person
Chapter 31: Maybe a Little Too Perfect
Chapter 32: His Skills Were in Great Demand
Part 2: The Shifting Metaphor
Chapter 33: I Like Things I Can See as Much as Things I Can’t
Chapter 34: Couldn’t Recall the Last Time I Checked My Tires’ Air Pressure
Chapter 35: You Should Have Just Left That Place Alone
Chapter 36: What I Want Is Not to Have to Discuss the Rules of the Game
Chapter 37: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Chapter 38: He Could Never Be a Dolphin
Chapter 39: A Camouflaged Container, Designed for a Specific Purpose
Chapter 40: I Could Not Mistake the Face
Chapter 41: Only as Long as I Didn’t Turn Around
Chapter 42: If It Breaks When You Drop It, It’s an Egg
Chapter 43: It Couldn’t End Like Any Other Dream
Chapter 44: The Traits That Make a Person Who They Are
Chapter 45: Something Is About to Happen
Chapter 46: People Are Powerless Before a Sturdy, Towering Wall
Chapter 47: “It Is Now Friday, Is It Not?”
Chapter 48: The Spaniards Simply Couldn’t Navigate the Angry Seas Off the Irish Coast
Chapter 49: Filled with Just as Many Deaths
Chapter 50: It Will Involve Ordeal and Sacrifice
Chapter 51: Now Is the Time
Chapter 52: The Man in the Orange Cone Hat
Chapter 53: Maybe a Fireplace Poker
Chapter 54: Eternity Is a Very Long Time
Chapter 55: A Clear Contravention of Basic Principles
Chapter 56: It Appears That Several Blanks Need Filling In
Chapter 57: Something I Have to Do Eventually
Chapter 58: Like Hearing About the Beautiful Canals of Mars
Chapter 59: Until Death Separated Us
Chapter 60: If That Person Had Pretty Long Arms
Chapter 61: I Have to Be a Brave, Smart Girl
Chapter 62: One Can Stumble into a Labyrinth
Chapter 63: But It’s Not What You’re Thinking
Chapter 64: As a Form of Grace
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A Note About the Author
Reading Group Guide