Suzumiya Haruhi:Volume7 Author's Notes

From Baka-Tsuki

Author's Notes

Why is it that one knows not what one will do in the future, nor what one thought of it back then?

Rather than speaking of not knowing, many would say instead that "I have forgotten what I thought about back then." Therefore to make sure that you won't forget, you should make notes. Although there will be times when you won't even remember what such records mean. For example...

...before I started the epilogue, I dug into my previous records and there are many ambiguities in what I recorded. I can't help but think, "why is it that I just don't understand the things I did?" It should not be on account of changes in my way of thinking, but rather I must have picked up some strange, enigmatic transmissions back there and then subconsciously jotted them down in my note." "Myth of millions strands of Beni shoga [1]" and "Medley of Pavlov" are things that puzzle me every time when I try to make sense of their meanings. Why is it that I would write such things down?

I must have thought this: "As long as I write them down, I should be able to immediately remember these things when reading through them the next time." I guess I was full of confidence in my memorization skills back in those days. Whereas today I have absolutely no clue about the tiniest bit of the original questions. At any rate, they must have been some meaningless trivialities. However if they were something interesting, I would be quite furious over losing out to myself of the past (?some part of my past? - sounds better and keeps more in tone with Ch07).

A lesson to learn here is that one must document ideas carefully when taking notes. Although another lesson is that you might still have no idea what you jotted down...

This novel is the longest in the entire series.

Since Disappearance, the stories in the novel have been set during winter, and finally winter ends here and now. After this I will be penning the tales from the following spring. Though I might mention that my favorite season is early summer, because in this time you can hear the idling frogs and the busy singing of birds, their sounds mixing in a duet. By then, you'll be away from the cold for a good long while. How nice is that! Even the trip to the convenience store at night is not nearly as painful an affair.

Let's leave it at that. Because of your endless support I am able to continue to write these stories. As I am writing these words down and looking back, it suddenly hits me that I have actually finished so many novels, and will have more to come. Needless to say, I am part surprised and part concerned. I wonder what everyone has to say about it after reading all of this?

Thank you all once again, and please keep supporting me if you like my stories.

With that, see you all.

Tanigawa Nagaru

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