Kiki and the Secret Room in Honolulu

Kiki is spotted finally. It takes about 250 pages, but we get introduced the to person that is the foundation for the entire story. It's not the best encounter since the narrator doesn't get to speak to her, but it did give me a feeling of satisfaction for the first time since picking up the book.

Yuki and our main chap are driving through a rough area in Honolulu taking about ET when the spotting takes place. He jumps out of the car and chases after Kiki. He is never able to catch her, but she leads him to a room.

Now we have two rooms. One in the Dolphin and the other in Honolulu. Neither of them exists in reality, but our located in some other dimension where he is suppose to find all the right connections.

"Then came the sound. A clicking of heels, high heels. Echoing eerily off the ceiling, bearing a weight...the dry weight of the old memories. All of the sudden, I was wandering through the labyrinthine viscera of a large organism. Long-dead cracked, eroded. By something beyond reality, beyond human rationality, I had slipped through a fault in time and entered this thing."

In this room he finds 6 skeletons, one of which has only one arm and he thinks it could be Dick North. Kiki disappears before he can speak to her, and all he is left with is a business card with a phone number on it, which he recognizes as June's (the Hawaii prostitute) number. He tries ringing it, but no answer.

After this encounter he tells Yuki that he must go back to Japan, and sort some thing out.

"Death is always beside me, I don't know why. And given the slightest opening it shows itself."
"Maybe that is your key. Maybe death is your connection to the world," Yuki said.

He leaves Hawaii knowing that the skeletons must belong to people that he knows, but he is still left in a state of confusion.

At this point I'm in a state on confusion as well. With Kiki on the scene I'm not sure what to think. How does she disappear like that? Is she dead or has she always been some sort of being that can pass between worlds? And what about June, how does she have to same number?

There are many unanswered questions, and the way that Murakami writes I'm afraid the novel will end with a few. However, that is what I love most about books. One where there are things left unanswered that way when it comes time to put it back on the shelf it is able to stay alive in your memory because it allows you to put your own spin on things. To think about what really happened to some of the characters, and what their purpose is.