I am in America and I cannot speak Japanese.
"Simply put, our memories of experiences are rendered into something like a narrative form.
"Now a narrative is a story, not logic, nor ethics, nor philosophy. It is a dream you keep having, whether you realize it or not. Just as surely as you breathe, you go on ceaselessly dreaming your story. And in these stories you wear two faces. You are simultaneously subject and object. You are the whole and you are a part. You are real and you are shadow. 'Storyteller' and at the same time 'character.' It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world." -Murakami Haruki
"There are ever so many ways that a world might be; and one of these many ways is the way this world is." - David Lewis"A story was told about a man who, escaping from a tiger, slipped over a cliff and clung to a vine. He noticed that there was another tiger at the bottom waiting to devour him, and yet he could not climb up since the first tiger was still there. Worse still, there were two mice, one white, the other black (signifying night and day), gnawing on the vine that kept him suspended between two ill fates. At that moment, the man noticed a juicy strawberry on the side of the cliff and decided to enjoy it." - ?
