![]() ![]() ― Haruki Murakami, quote from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Or at least I think I wouldn’t be so upset, because that would feel, in some ways, a whole lot more real.” I suppose I’d be shocked, of course, but I don’t know, I think I’d be kind of relieved too. I would be kind of relieved if, every once in a while, after you put rice pudding mix in the microwave and it rang and you opened the top, you got macaroni gratin. We think it’s only natural to get rice pudding after we put rice pudding mix in the microwave and the bell rings, but to me, that is just a presumption. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody’s looking and only then turns back into rice pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can’t tell what’s going on under the cover. “It’s like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you’ve got ricing pudding. ![]()
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