Kafka on the Shore #17

Chapter 25:

There's the "Out of the blue" comment again. I don't know if it matters.

The ghost is Miss Saeki's long, deep dream? How come she can hear Kafka's heart? He can see her but she can't see him. They are "divided by an invisible boundary." Both in love with someone who is no longer of this world. Who does Kafka love?

The birds make noise, waking Kafka up. So they are freeing him from the dream world?

So... Kafka is in love with Miss Saeki. But she is a "living spirit"? In a way? Not in a evil way, though. And she loves a dead boy. Kafka is caught up in their spiritual world and feels so jealous.

About Miss Saeki... Oshima says, "She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around." Miss Saeki wrote Kafka on the Shore based on her dream? In a spiritual world?

If Miss Saeki is Kafka's mother. Is it a connection or coincidence or fate that Kafka chose his name to be Kafka? In love with his mother= OEDIPUS.

Why is Kafka legally an illegitimate child? Oxymoronic!

There is so much talk about shadows.

Miss Saeki is always wearing blue or something like that. What does blue mean? Why don't I ever know?

"Entrance that would take me to that other world." Is that what Nakata is looking for? Is Miss Saeki talking about this entrance stone?

What does the lightning mean? A book about lightning? Never concluded. Interesting. That makes me think about how we ask an endless amount of questions about life, yet we never really get complete answers. Just more questions. But that's just how it is.

Something knocking on a door in Kafka's head. What does that mean?


Kafka's father was struck by lightning. And Miss Saeki wrote a book about lightning. Interviewing people. Could she really be Kafka's mom? Does lightning have to do with the entrance stone? Does it open it up? Or...what?