The point is, not to resist the flow. You go up when you’re supposed to go up and down when you’re supposed to go down. 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 darkness.
— Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
ORNITHOTHROPY
[noun]
1. the professed ability or power of a human being to transform into a bird, or to gain bird-like characteristics.
2. the delusion that one can transform into a bird or that one is a bird.
Etymology: from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (ornith-), the stem of ὄρνις (ornis, “bird”) + άνθρωπος (ànthrōpos “human”).
— A Lackadaisical Lexicon for Laggard Logophiles
[noun]
1. the professed ability or power of a human being to transform into a bird, or to gain bird-like characteristics.
2. the delusion that one can transform into a bird or that one is a bird.
Etymology: from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (ornith-), the stem of ὄρνις (ornis, “bird”) + άνθρωπος (ànthrōpos “human”).
— A Lackadaisical Lexicon for Laggard Logophiles
