I started to focus on chance as a way to deal with both of these ideas simultaneously - I wanted to literally take the processes from the world that I was interested in and use them - not just randomness but others as well.
Veils are articles that reveal and conceal things simultaneously, so I wanted it to be about psychological disassociation.
Reread my paragraph about wanting him simultaneously at all ages of his life and you'll get what I want, mister.
I want simultaneously to shower my siblings children with everything we never had, but at the same time I know that what I want more is for them to appreciate that money does not equate to happiness, or love, or lack thereof.
That was the effect he was trying to achieve in particular when he wrote "Litany," a poem comprising two parallel columns of words that in theory are supposed to be read simultaneously: he wanted to simulate the experience of overhearing two conversations at once, which he finds interesting even though, or because, he cannot properly understand either one.
Simultaneously, the village wanted to improve its morale.
In 2001, Mancusi-Ungaro was offered two jobs simultaneously: the Whitney wanted her to start a department of conservation, and Harvard wanted her to establish a center for the study of modern and contemporary artists' materials.
Women accepted that weight gain was integral to their pregnancy, but simultaneously wanted to limit their weight gain to their bump ('my pregnancy').
For all its familiarity, I read Colorless Tsukuru as I have read all Murakami's previous books, with the exception of the sprawling, often frustratingly tangential 1Q84: voraciously while, simultaneously not wanting it to end.
Simultaneously, he wants to entertain: "Spend part of the afternoon in the gazebo with a water-pistol," he writes on 16 May 2010, "hoping to surprise the squirrel rifling the bird-feeder".
A big motivation for the project was to make the book more accessible, "but simultaneously, we want to appeal to people who really know and love his text – and that is why we did it unabridged".
