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Andrea Lee Reads Haruki Murakami

The New Yorker: Fiction

CHAPTER

The Last Line of the Story

"I keep on getting older and i keep on getting old," the narrator says. "It's kind of the tragedy of someone who'sno been too much of an observer, rightis it? Maybe the tragedy of theth of the writer, right?" The story ends with a question: How can morality be the delicate balance in what he's doing? 'He needs innocence too to act out'

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