December 2009
10 posts
To ------------:
Hello,
Let me describe to you how I am feeling. I think you would like to know.
I am in a room, alone. Outside, it is clear, lightly windy, dry, chill. The white walls appear a light blue from the shade. The table is clean. My seat is warmed by my buttocks.
Once in a while, I look at the clock on the wall. Sometimes, I will find that time has stopped. Other times, I will find that time has...
More Murakami on 'Norwegian Wood'
From the same book.
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I think I can say that writing a novel is, for me, an extremely peculiar activity … whenever I am writing one, in some corner of my brain I am always thinking about death.
I never think about death under ordinary circumstances. It is extremely rare for me - as it is for most healthy men in their late thirties - to see death as a daily imminent possibility. But once...
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So...”
– Haruki Murakami (via behindthepublicmasks)
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Murakami on 'Norwegian Wood'
From ‘Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words’ by Jay Rubin.
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“The third thing I want to have in my style [after spareness and rhythm] is humor. I want to make people laugh out loud. I also want to make their hair stand on end, make their hearts pound. It is important to me that my writing should accomplish that. When I wrote my first novel, several friends called me up to...
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
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I laughed. “You’re too young to be so…pessimistic,” I said, using the English word.
“Pessi-what?”
“Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark side of things.”
“Pessimistic…pessimistic…” She repeated the English to herself over and over, and then she looked up at me with a fierce glare. “I’m only...
Ahh...
She doesn’t get it at all.
Effort.
I can do better than this. Between pity and arrogance there is the truth of things, and the fact of the matter in this case is that I don’t work hard enough.
I’m happy that I’ve been consciously bettering myself — bettering = better manifesting my meaningful actions in the world — for a long time, but finishing two majors in two and a half years wasn’t that...
Today (Tomorrow, modified)
Make gingerbread dough for D (check)
Set up Christmas tree (check)
Change water for neglected goldfish (check)
UMN application (bleh)
Wind-up Bird
Wrap Norwegian Wood
Call K
Laundry (in progress)
