Murakami's Time - Oscar

Towards the beginning of Chapter 10 in A Wild Sheep Chase, we come across this line:

"As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock."

It's lines like these and other similar ones, all involving clocks or descriptions of time and its fluid relation to the material world, that have prompted comments and discussions about the themes of time and its role in the world of AWSC during our reading. And given their constant presence in Murakami's general style of writing, I've begun thinking that alongside other more lofty and grand themes, Murakami simply wants to portray the human being living through time. 

To me, this is evident in both ends in the spectrum of AWSC's narrative - from the moments of numbing mundanity (the descriptions of housework, or making coffee) to thrilling scenes that hook you in (the journey up the mountain path), everything is described as it is to Boku while the unnoticed world passes on as normal. I also see it in his short stories - a couple is getting beer after seeing a baby kangaroo, and someone else is making obscene amounts of spaghetti and eating it, alone. It brings to mind the idea, or feeling, of 'mono no aware' - time moves on, with or without you.