"But if you paid close attention to what he was saying or what he had written,
you knew that his words lacked consistency.
They reflected no single worldview based on profound conviction.
His was a world that he had fabricated by combining
several one-dimensional systems of thought.
He could rearrange the combination in an instant, as needed.
These were ingenious - even artistic - intellectual permutations and combinations.
But to me they amounted to nothing more than a game."
~ Murakami, The Wind - Up Bird Chronicle.
