What made [the houses] look strange it's hard to say, but that was the first thing I felt when I saw them. My… — Haruki Murakami

What made [the houses] look strange it's hard to say, but that was the first thing I felt when I saw them. My reaction was a lot like what we feel from attempts to draw unreality in a pleasant way. It occurred to me that this was what you might get if Walt Disney did an animated version of a Munch painting.

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