We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea.

Murakami's characters sense the potential liquification and destruction of everything. The aftershocks are psychological, and can be seen in characters who are some distance from the epicenter of the chaos in both time and space. The rifts, the fissures -- and those words are repeated often in the text -- are inside them now: there are separations and openings in their hearts, wounds and cracks in their psyches.

We don't have a complete inventory of all the sites that are out there ... but the potential (of site destruction) is so great, though, so there is a concern.

We don't have a complete inventory of all the sites that are out there ... but the potential (of site destruction) is so great, though, so there is a concern.

I know smoking causes problems. But I don't think non-smokers know how much it controls you, how addictive it is.