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Haruki Murakami The Seventh Man
Imagine that you are on a beach standing in the eye of a hurricane with your friend. You start to have a strange feeling in your gut and run from shore as a huge wave heads towards shore. The wave washes your friend off the shore and as you watch in disbelief another one washes up and you see him inside reaching for help. You don’t take his hand. This actually happened in the text “The Seventh Man” by Haruki Murakami. The seventh man he wrote about had spent fifty years of his life feeling guilty for something that was out of his control. He should forgive himself for the happenings of that day. The seventh man (we’ll call him Bob) had been scared by this experience for decades because he felt he could have done more to help his friend K.
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