From Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning.  It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an electric shock when they first meet, but something quieter and gentler, like two tiny lights traveling in tandem through a vast […]

From Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: I happened to lose my life at one particular moment in time, and I have gone on living these forty years or more with my life lost.  As a person who finds himself in such a position, I have come to think that life is a far more […]

From Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: No one said anything.  Noboru Wataya appeared not to have even noticed that I had arrived. In order to make sure that I had not suddenly turned transparent, I put a hand on the table and watched as I turned it over and back a few times.

We’ve made a great big overpopulated mess of our planet and sometimes I feel like we aren’t going to take effective action before things really fall apart.  I don’t really think I’m pessimistic, because I certainly keep trying.  Perhaps this is stupid.  May Kasahara in Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle says this: I’m only […]