More Wisdom from Haruki Murakami
"I dont know... These days I just can't seem to say what I mean', she said. 'I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's as though my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her."
An excerpt from "Firefly", one of the short stories from Murakami's "Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman", one of the few Murakami books I got for my birthday (thanks Jing & Tina!)
Although I've read many of Murakami's novels, this is the first I've read of his short stories. To be honest, the book is a little disappointing, if only because my expectations of Murakami's writing are stellar and some of the short stories are less than perfect. Some of them, however, are fantastic. Such as "Firefly", which was later expanded into a full-length novel, my favourite of Murakami's novels - "Norwegian Wood".
posted by LX @ 1:12 AM
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