Strecher's term for Murakami's metaphysical other realms (wells, walls, portals, overpasses, forests) that make up roughly half of each novel. Tamir asks whether they are separate at all, or a sign that ordinary life is shot through with synchronicity and strangeness.
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- The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
- The weird is an antidote to nihilism
- Allow the meaning to come in