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Haruki Murakami and the lonely traveller in us The alone/lonely traveller responded to my request of sea water: "i only have the Mekong river water here,very thick brown colour...but the waterfall had some blue and green water and smell just like the ocean water..." (How come waterfall water can smell like ocean??) Reading, I felt farlorn. Later, I met with Haruki Murakami,renowned Jp writer, a once self-imposed exiler/escaper travelling around/away. He gave us the answer: "Despite our loneliness we are all connected. ... We have rooms in ourselves. Most of them we have not visited yet....From time to time we can find the passage. We find strange things...old phonographs, pictures, books...they belong to us, but it is the first time we have found them.” Enlightened - Despite our loneliness we are all connected. |
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NNM When a post like this one knocks at the doors of lonely post-readers. Quite often we are knocked by something, someone that ushers our loneliness - actually, this loneliness is kind of understanding. Cheers. Thank you. Peasant DVC. I were also a peasant girl, growing up in the rice paddy, peanut, Chinese orange field, river, w/ bufflos until seven. Thanks to loneliness that all lonely people are connected. Thanks to? Sounds great. If there's no loneliness, there's no connection btw us ppl and the nature. One man cant form a planet.
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Last night Hiruki Murakami made me laugh, describing his trip to a remote Greek island. One of his theme is nostalgia for the past.
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Apology to my favorite writer and fellow bloggers: Typo: Hiruki Murakami should be Haruki Murakami.
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Guess he said it during an interview. And this is his theme that he explored in most of his books. Wanna read Kafka on the Shore?
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MInt, I searched for his books all over Macau, an self-claimed intl city where east meets west for 1 week. All book shops told me, "All sold out and his new work will come next week." I really want to stay in his atmosphere. I like his fiction, short story and travellog as wel. I am looking for Kafka on the Shore As for translation, sure there w/b variables on conveying Japanese to English. But well, the original words are fm Murakami.
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