Killing Commendatore

by Haruki Murakami

gauze.

riveted

“What would be the meaning of a world that did not change when an Idea was extinguished? Can an Idea be so insignificant?”

wretched

tatters—and

desiccated

dithering,

scabbard.

dawdle.”

wallowed

steel

strode

lolled

ramshackle

spewed

contorted

snuffing

gawked

drab,

jutting

rife

vile

trussed

stoop

craggy,

stirred,

Fording

jetty

“I must travel to the other side.” “As must all.”

careen

declaimed

“No one can tell what is or is not the real thing,” she stated flatly. “All that we see is a product of connectivity. Light here is a metaphor for shadow, shadow a metaphor for light.

clammy

racket.

demurely

stubble.

deftly

dollop

lewdly.

stern.

stammered.

imposition.”

flustered.

bequeathed

sundry

quell

propitious

sobriquet

raiments

tom-tom—that’s