— Haruki Murakami (Trans. Jay Rubin), Norwegian Wood. 199. ¶“How many Sundays—how many hundreds of Sundays like this—lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful, and lonely,” I said aloud to myself. On Sundays, I didn’t wind my spring.”
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