Part III, Chapter 3, Tengo Summary

Tengo continues visiting and reading to his father. He figures his father needs a deeper commitment, so he decides to go stay near the sanatorium for a while. Fuka-Eri and Tengo talk on the phone, and she tells him a crow comes everyday to the window. A television fee collector has also come around, but Fuka-Eri does not answer the door. Tengo does not have a television, so he wonders why the fee collector has come to the apartment. The man shouts "thief" through the door, which perplexes Tengo.

Part III, Chapter 3, Tengo Analysis

The laws of physics and of nature continue to break down, as more and more mysterious occurrences take place. That nothing is making sense in the cat town is readily apparent to Tengo, who is unnerved by the visits of both the crow...