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RENESA Spring Edition 2022
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle WRITTEN BY
ILLUSTRATED BY
Jayesh Pandey
Yash Bhardava
Chemical 3rd Year
Mechanical 3rd Year
“When you’re supposed to go up, find the highest tower and climb to the top. When you’re supposed to go down, find the deepest well and go down to the bottom. When there’s no flow, stay still. If you resist the flow, everything dries up. If everything dries up, the world is in darkness.” -Haruki Murakami, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Imagine you woke up on a warm sunny day, last night you went to bed with no plans for the next day - all you wanted to do was to half-doze on your couch as you binged F.R.I.E.N.D.S for the 20th time. But apparently, you cannot do that, because you are standing in the middle of a busy road. You don’t know how you got there, you can’t seem to recall a thread of memory that will untie the knot of this peculiar situation. You notice that your left hand is holding something. Your fist is clenched around a red-colored microphone - one that is used by news reporters. And on your right-hand something is scribbled. You are perplexed by this mystery, nothing is making sense anymore, your feet start moving on their own, you don’t know why you’re running but you don’t care anymore and you go along with the flow. You start sprinting, every time your feet hit the road the sound gets duller and duller. You are colliding with people, but they don’t seem to care. You are now running at your maximum capacity, but you feel no exhaustion. The sun was overhead a moment ago but now the sky is colored in orange as if Van Gogh was painting his next impression. You keep running until there’s no road ahead, until there’s no sky over your head, until there’s no “YOU” left. This was a mere replica of the work of a true magician. And every show that this magician puts up has a formula to it - a whimsical premise followed by slow but fancy buildup which never concludes, with a tiny sprinkle of jazz - and although it’s formulaic, it works every single time. Because the whims of his idiosyncratic universe consist of - talking cats, permeable walks, ghosts of living people, and Colonel Sanders working as a pimp in the alleys of Japan. To say that these elements are absurd RENESA Spring Edition 2022
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