This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

“And then, inside me, the axis of time gave one great heave.”

“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.”

“You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set t…”

“Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neat…”