Shawna Vogel science writer
Naked Earth: the New Geophysics (1995)
“This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.”
— Haruki Murakami, book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
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