Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, a…

Haruki Murakami
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Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a single universe, and the universe waited there in the book to be discovered by the reader. ✨ Haruki Murakami (2011). The Elephant Vanishes, p.100, Random House
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