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Hear the Wind Sing
An excerpt from Haruki Murakami's Hear the Wind Sing ( Read more... ) -
Pinball 1973
An excerpt from Haruki Murakami's Pinball 1973. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum
1969-1973
I used to love listening to stories about faraway places. It was almost pathological.
There was a time; a good ten years ago now, when I went around latching onto one person after another, asking them to tell me about the places where they were born and grew up. ( Read more... ) -
dance dance dance
She wanted a kind of autonomy of communication. A scene where the hero -- whose name was "Communication" -- led the masses to a bright, bloodless revolution, spotless white flags waving. So that perfection could swallow imperfection and make it whole. To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, ( Read more... )
