sputnik sweetheart
"on the flip side of everything we think we absolutely understand lurks an equal amount of the unknown.
"understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.
in the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion."
"Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?"
and the passage that struck me most.
"why do people have to be this lonely? what's the point of it all? millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. why? was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
i wonder about murakami's critics. i really do. i think one man's meat is really another's poison. i can never understand the charges they level at him. i have enjoyed every single one of his works i have read so far. i always anticipate finding and reading one, because i am sure that i can find some stroke of genius within.
murakami's writings always come across as absurd. yet there's always something to learn, something to realise, something to think about. maybe people just can't accept that the absurd things that happen in his writings are his metaphors, the connections between him and the reader.
what i like about sputnik sweetheart is the way the three central characters K, Miu and Sumire interact. like three satellites around the Earth, with the Earth as their contact point. and of course Sumire's 2 documents left in Greece. especially the first one.
revolving doors. i think that's the image in my mind. people coming and going. people separated by the glass doors. people seeing themselves in the glass. like seeing another person altogether. yes yes, that's the idea.
and i do wonder if K was right, that it is a very lonely feeling to stand at the mouth of a river and watch the river water mix with the seawater.
"understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.
in the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion."
"Did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?"
and the passage that struck me most.
"why do people have to be this lonely? what's the point of it all? millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. why? was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
i wonder about murakami's critics. i really do. i think one man's meat is really another's poison. i can never understand the charges they level at him. i have enjoyed every single one of his works i have read so far. i always anticipate finding and reading one, because i am sure that i can find some stroke of genius within.
murakami's writings always come across as absurd. yet there's always something to learn, something to realise, something to think about. maybe people just can't accept that the absurd things that happen in his writings are his metaphors, the connections between him and the reader.
what i like about sputnik sweetheart is the way the three central characters K, Miu and Sumire interact. like three satellites around the Earth, with the Earth as their contact point. and of course Sumire's 2 documents left in Greece. especially the first one.
revolving doors. i think that's the image in my mind. people coming and going. people separated by the glass doors. people seeing themselves in the glass. like seeing another person altogether. yes yes, that's the idea.
and i do wonder if K was right, that it is a very lonely feeling to stand at the mouth of a river and watch the river water mix with the seawater.
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