"the best thing to do with a hypothesis is to let it run any course it pleases. now, at least, i was expanding my life, and it was wonderful. my hand weren't empty anymore. here i was-alive, and i could feel it. it was real. i wasn't being consumed any longer. or at least there was a part of me in existence that was not being consumed, and that was what gave me this intensely real feeling of being alive. a life without that feeling might go on forever, but it would have no meaning at all. i saw that with absolute clarity now."
-haruki murakami
in:
"sleep"
