![]() ![]() This drama was a lot more complex and with no discernible plot. ![]() As the narrator quips at one point, this isn't the kind of thing they show on TV. The level of cool and grandeur, in their corresponding sections, does come at the expense of plot. ![]() He stays, immersed in the harmony and perfect nothing of that dreamed and conflict-free world. ![]() For the narrator, though now fully conscious of the costs, cannot leave behind the peace that he's found. But then comes the so-understandable, so heartbreaking finale to it all. 334) and cannot exist for those who have no mind. 334) For, as we come to see, Love is a state of mind (p. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise without the despair of loss, there is no hope. For the utopia of absence that the End of the World shows us is not only devoid of loss but also of gain, not only misery but also joy: The absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. The first is the justification of progress and striving, no matter its cost. No, as crushing waves of melancholy and an almost agonizing beauty imbue every word of the novel's ending chapters, Murakami's brief but deep epic of thought reaches two successive peaks. ![]()
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