“In order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.”
-Haruki Murakami
South of the Border, West of the Sun
I recently read a few of Murakami's novels over Summer break. One of them was South of the Border, West of the Sun. I came across this quote as I was coming to an end to the novel. I remembered it in Shane's class the other morning when he asked us to write what we care about. Something for me has always been an attempt to understand where reality starts and where it stops--and whether or not it really exists by itself or if it is a dependent concept.
whoa this is a super interesting/frustrating thought! Its not easy accepting that we can truly never know reality. Is this an idea you plan to represent in your own work (if yes) how do you think you will go about it?
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