Murakami's Well

Murakami's recurring image of protagonists ending up in a well, which Tamir reads as a portal into the unknown and the shadow side. It is frightening at first, but with repeated visits it becomes a friend and an ally.

Where it appears 1

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  portal to the unknownEp 9 · with Nevena

Connections

Related

• Portal to the Unknown

Mentioned alongside

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

References

• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Referenced by

• Once you confront it and you actually take a look directly into it, it no longer holds power over you. You actually now wield it rather than it wielding you.Nevena · Ep 9 · 59:37

Explored through

• Everything was unchanged... and at the same time everything had changed.Haruki Murakami · Ep 9 · 59:37
• The shadow doesn't leave; it becomes an allyTamir Barzilai · Ep 9 · 58:03

  Integration doesn't remove the shadow. Your relationship to it changes until you can 'give a wink' to each other. Like Murakami's well, the darkness stays the same but stops being…