So as an experiential model, it’s probably correct.” “Experiential model,” Fuka-Eri repeated. “After taking a lot of samples, you come to view one conjecture as actually correct.”

Principles and logic didn’t give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.

“We came into this world so that we could meet. We didn’t realize it ourselves, but that was the purpose of us coming here. We faced all kinds of complications – things that didn’t make sense, things that defied explanation. Weird things, gory things, sad things.

denouement.

It’s a Barnum and Bailey world, Just as phony as it can be, But it wouldn’t be make-believe If you believed in me.

“People need routines. It’s like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic. In the present situation, you don’t want to move from where you are now. At least until the end of the year you have refused to move to a safer location –

As his father lay on this plain bed in the sanatorium by the shore, at the same time he might very well be surrounded by scenes and memories invisible to others, in the still darkness of a back room in his own vacant house.

Their dark silhouettes numbed the soft part of his brain, like a bee stinging and numbing a caterpillar, then laying eggs on the surface of its body. The bee larvae use the paralyzed caterpillar as a convenient source of food and devour it as soon as they’re born.

The two different worlds were silently at odds within her, fighting over her consciousness, like the mouth of a river where the seawater and the freshwater flow in.