— Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin and and Philip GabrielSurely, if a person had to accept the time through which he had just passed uniformly in the given order, his nerves could not bear the strain. Such a life, Tengo felt, would be sheer torture.
Replicated under Fair Use from 1Q84 (Vintage International) by Haruki Murakami and Jay Rubin and and Philip Gabriel.