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Ch. 5 - Flightless Bird and Waterless Well

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Ch. 5 - Flightless Bird and Waterless Well

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami

Chapter 5,
Flightless Bird and Waterless Well / Hooked on Lemon Drops
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The place looked like a still, stagnant pool in which some enormous force had blocked the natural flow.

This hint isn't very subtle. The lack of subtly is almost alarming, and right away I knew this was an important place.
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"Maybe when people take their eyes off them, inanimate objects become even more inanimate."

Now, that is a statement that takes some work to get your mind around. I am still not convinced I understand it in context.
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It makes me think a lot of "Nausea" by Jean-Paul Sartre. The idea that the world is more about perception than it is about reality. I would agree with that to a large extent, though not quite so far as existentialists take it.
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I don't pick up on all these hints, these metaphoric passages. I do notice the water though - a lot of water running through these chapters.
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