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"1Q84," Aomame said. "Are you talking about the fact that I am living now in the year called 1Q84, not the real 1984?"
"What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem," the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach. "What it is, is a metaphysical proposition. But this is the real world, there is no doubt about that. The pain one feels in this world is real pain. Deaths caused in this world are real deaths. Blood shed in this world is real blood. This is no imitation world, no imaginary world, no metaphysical world. I guarantee you that. But this is not the 1984 you know."