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Lion’s den?

“We’re not talking about just anyone,” said Javier Diez Canseco, another former hostage. “If this leader has placed himself in the lion’s den it’s because he’s going for broke.”

Unlike the other leader of the Tupac Amaru movement who has middle-class origins, Cerpa Cartolini is from a working-class background and is considered a ruthless man of action.

- Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages, CNN.com, December 22, 1996.

2. Laura Miller and Don George interview Haruki Murakami, author of ‘The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,’ ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ and ‘Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.’

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Did you ever sit in the bottom of a dry well, like your hero, Toru?

No. But I’ve always been attracted by wells, very much. Every time I see one, I go over and look in.

Do you think you’ll go down one some day?

No, no.

Too scared?

Too scared. I read some writings by people who dropped down wells. One story, by Raymond Carver, was about a boy who dropped into a well and spent a day at the bottom. It’s a good story.

He’s a very realistic writer.

Yes, very realistic. But the subconscious is very important to me as a writer. I don’t read much Jung, but what he writes has some similarity with my writing. To me the subconscious is terra incognita. I don’t want to analyze it, but Jung and those people, psychiatrists, are always analyzing dreams and the significance of everything. I don’t want to do that. I just take it as a whole. Maybe that’s kind of weird, but I’m feeling like I can do the right thing with that weirdness. Sometimes it’s very dangerous to handle that. You remember that scene in the mysterious hotel? I like the story of Orpheus, his descending, and this is based on that. The world of death and you enter there at your own risk. I think that I am a writer, and I can do that. I am taking my own risk. I have confidence that I can do it.