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IQ84 by Huruki Murakami

Anyone who has ever entered a parallel or alternate universe will tell you it can be treacherous going. You generally arrive somewhere that looks like home, though by definition that train has already left the station.To begin with, if you’re the kind of person who looks for parallel universes, you’re undoubtedly an escapist who is going to want to be somewhere else before you even arrive. You impulsively enter another parallel universe, all the while getting further and further from the ideal universe you envisioned. That’s the problem with dreaming. It’s self proliferating activity that acts like a rip tide taking you further from where you want to go, the more you try to fight to get there.

read "The Wasteland" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

and also read "Punk" by Francis Levy, Vol.1 Brooklyn