— Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin and and Philip GabrielSubtraction was a far simpler process than addition, and it reduced the volume of his text by some thirty percent. It was a kind of mind game. He would set a certain time period for expanding the text as much as possible, then set a certain time period for reducing the text as much as possible.
Replicated under Fair Use from 1Q84 (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin and and Philip Gabriel.