On sale for $1.00 +shipping. University of Hawai`i Press.

Spring is coming and I am going to be busy in the mountains. Will resume posting again when the beasts grow out their golden hair. Plan to read again The Wind-up Bird in late August. I like the cover of Strecher's book, its just how I feel when looking at my own bookshelf.

Final: Canada 3 US 2

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 👀

71 - bashing Noboru Wataya

Connections to Kafka on the Shore?

The Bodhisattva acts from the reality that lived experience is characterized by fundamental precariousness.

Eggs are now $9.99 at my local market. Just regular everyday eggs.

“But in a world turned upside down, things I thought were mine and mine alone can be taken away much more easily than I would have imagined.” ― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“For no one knows what kind of dreams tomorrow will bring.” ― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women 女のいない男たち (Onna no inai otokotachi)

"The clock shows 3 p.m., the two hands cold and distant. They're pretending to be non-committal, but I know they're not on my side." -Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

"...intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They’re a lost cause, and I don’t want anyone like that coming in here." Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

色々な喫茶店を巡られてる韓国の方のYoutubeチャンネルを毎回楽しみにしてる youtu.be/Dkoaa4Juouw?...

Advice from Marie Kondo.

“what does it mean to be alive?” ― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

“Where there's an entrance, there's got to be an exit. Most things work that way.” ― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

"Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear." -Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Seem familiar?

Osip Mandelstam had high regard for Vaginov's work.

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our phones forever.

"Against stupidity we are defenseless." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“No need to worry. Time is the remedy for your concerns. It is the key for all things that possess form. True, time does not last forever, but as long as you have it, it is remarkably efficacious. So look forward to the future, my friends.” ― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

@masaharu0129.bsky.social Hi Junko, You are the 1000th follower here. Thanks so much!

"These things can happen, Mr. Okada. As you know, we live in a violent and chaotic world. And within this world, there are places that are still more violent, still more chaotic. Do you understand what I mean, Mr. Okada?"

What kind of world will be there tomorrow? "No one knows the answer to that", Fuka-Eri said.

James Joyce born February 2, 1882, Rathgar, Dublin, Ireland. "A cry off. Where are we at all? and whenabouts in the name of space? I don't understand. I fail to say. I dearsee you too." -Finnegans Wake