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Running is a conversation with myself
I’m not really into Harry Styles’ music but I appreciate his running habit and this interview with Murakami from Runner’s World is gold. I could listen to him talk about running all day. I have a marathon coming up this weekend and I’ve only recently been listening to music from time to time on my…
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Don’t use the word hate
Murakami said it best: “Hatred is like a long, dark shadow. In most cases, not even the person it falls upon knows where it comes from.”
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Murakami on fiction (and why you should read some)
I’m a big fan of Haruki Murakami and just finished reading Kafka on the Shore. Like all his fiction, I find it kind of impossible to describe. It’s everything, all at once, I guess?! I find it wonderful, but I realize it’s not for everyone. Do you know what it is, though? Fiction. If you…
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Wind your spring
A spring is what a mechanical watch uses to store energy. There is a lot of interesting engineering involved but at the end of it, the winding of the spring is what builds up the energy that is then used to run the watch. I was reminded of this by a small passage in Norwegian…
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Deus ex machina
I’m nearly done reading Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami and I came across the mention of deus ex machina. I never knew what it meant. “Deus ex machina is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem in a story is suddenly and abruptly resolved by an unexpected and unlikely occurrence (Wikipedia). I thought that…
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We’re all actors
In the short story Drive My Car, from the collection Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami, it is said that acting involves leaving who one was for a brief time, but that the self that one is returning to is never exactly the same as the self that one had left behind. Through the lens…
Writing and drawings by Nick.
