Murakami's Wisdom
Some excerpts of "A Wild Sheep Tale", the Murakami book I'm reading at the moment.
"People can generally be classified into two groups: the mediocre realists and the mediocre dreamers"
"The world is mediocre. About that there is no mistake. Well then, has the world been mediocre since time immemorial? No. In the beginning, the world was chaos, and chaos is not mediocre. The mediocritisation began when people separated the means of production from daily life. For when Karl Marx posited the proletariat, he thereby cemented their mediocrity."
"The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses its meaning. Existences ceases for the inviduum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence"
"Everybody has some one thing they do not want ot lose. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realise it even existed."
"Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It's like the stillness of the pin oak when all the birds have flown off."
I also learnt that a vodka with grapefruit juice is called a "salty dog".
On top of that, songs I'm bumpin' on my new shiny black iPod video atm.
1. Justin Timberlake - SexyBack
2. Rick Ross - Blow
3. The Game - One Blood
4. Young Buck ft. Mobb Deep - Project Niggas
5. Arctic Monkeys - From the Ritz to the Rubble
The AIESEC Sports Day was fun today. Despite a few moments of uncoordination (man I suck at basketball) I did manage to score 3 goals in soccer. w00t. That'll teach y'all to pick me second last (sorry Ash)!
posted by LX @ 5:35 PM
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