1Q84: Books 1 and 2

The concepts of time, space, and possibility.

crudités

He had never been interested in high places. He wondered why not. Maybe it was because he had lived his whole life looking at the ground.

caustic

“Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself.

colloquial,

“Lachrimae”

person’s life may be a lonely thing by nature, but it is not isolated. To that life other lives are linked, and I surely have to bear some responsibility for those as well.

eschewing

Of course, reading novels was just another form of escape.