![]() ![]() There’ll be lots of blood, and unimaginable pain. ![]() What I’m going to do is slice open their chests with a knife, extract their still-beating hearts, and cut their heads off. I do this to keep them from thrashing about. It’s not an anesthetic – they’re not asleep and they can feel pain, but they can’t move their arms or legs. I’ve given them all injections to paralyze them. Just picked, fresh from the grove so to speak. “I’ve got five cats inside this case, all from that vacant lot. Still whistling his merry tune – “Heigh-Ho” from Disney’s Snow White, the one the Seven Dwarves sang – Johnnie Walker held up the cat like he was showing off a fish he’d just caught. The cat was limp, but its eyes were open. Nakata had never seen this cat before, a gray-striped male that had just reached adulthood. As if performing a magic trick, he extracted a cat out of the case. He placed it on the chair where he’d been sitting and opened it, whistling a cheery tune. Sample: Johnnie Walker stood up and picked up a large leather case from the shadows below the desk. TL DR: Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore captures my imagination, some of its characters are among my most beloved in fiction – not for everyone, but a novel I have reread many times. Finished library copy HC first edition (Alfred A. ![]() My edition: Vintage International paperback, 2006. First publication in Japan 2002, in English 2005. ![]()
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