First time featuring a female main character? Seriously, have they even read Murakami?

#HarukiMurakami @harukimurakamifan.bsky.social He is returned! July 3rd!

bsky.app/profile/japa... exciting times

"Everything is a path. The mountain is a path, the cloud is a path, the silence is a path." — Haruki Murakami

"But finally, Mr. Wind-Up Bird, isn't that just what life is? Aren't we all trapped in the dark somewhere, and they've taken away our food and water, and we're slowly dying, little by little ... ?" May Kasahara, (from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami)

"I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do." -Haruki Murakami

“waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in an advanced capitalist society” ― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

"The End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland” was created with an international tour in mind to capture rising interest in Japanese storytelling.

Happy 77th, Haruki Murakami.

Jaqueline Rose is a touchstone thinker for me. Here she describes a meeting with Netanyahu in 2002 & writes of his messianic vision that Israel, & indeed all Jews, are "always on the brink of disaster," requiring "catastrophe & a war of resurrection to save them." A harrowing piece.

dreams of the mountains of Japan

Leader of the Death cult, inflicter of pain. Can one imagine the deep deep void of his reality? Impossible.

Advice from Marie Kondo.

"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?"

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 👀

"Against stupidity we are defenseless." -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Where is Murakami? Did he go underground? Is he writing new stories? Any news or rumors?

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.

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