hunting knife

"a family's a strange thing."


"a family has to exist as its own premise, or else the system wont function. in that sense, my useless legs are a kind of banner that my family rallies around. my dead legs are the pivot around which things revolve."


"one of the main characteristics of this system is that lack gravitates towards greater lack, excess towards greater excess, when Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: ' i spent my days pursuing the nothingness-rein-it creates.' "


"my job is to create that void, that rein."


--excerpt. murakami--