Quotes From The Ruined Map by Kobo Abe

Some were returning, going back to the place they had left . . . leaving in order to return. They go out to obtain walling material to make the thick walls of their houses thicker, stronger than ever to return to The dark street . . . Too dark . . . The street, which until a short while ago had been too white, linked as it had been with the milky sky, was now a street in the depths of a gorge,…