Haida stopped and glanced at the clock on the wall. Then he looked at Tsukuru. He was, of course, Haida the son, but Haida the father has been the same age in his story, and so the two of them began to overlap in Tsukuru's mind. It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one. Maybe it wasn't the father who had experienced this, but the son. Maybe Haida was just relating it as if his father had experienced it, when in reality he was the one who had. Tsukuru couldn't shake this illusion. .Haruki Murakami
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We all relate and feel like we know the same people we read about in books and the people we meet, but we may not understand them as exactly as we want. The reason we can't relate to the people we read about in stories is because they are fictional characters. When I read a book I feel like I know all of the characters and that they exist in my mind as people that I know. The reason this is possible is because I am able to relate to them by using my imagination and putting myself in their shoes. Yet, when I meet a person and try to imagine what they would look like and how they would act, it is much harder and often impossible for me to understand them or put myself in their shoes.
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
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