story: “Men Without Women”
author: Haruki Murakami
year: 2017
where: golden chaise
note: I haven’t picked up this collection since summer 2017.
a line: “I already know what it is to be the second-loneliest man on earth. But I still don’t know what it is to be the loneliest. A deep gulf separates the second and the first loneliest on earth.”
story: “Cream”
author: Haruki Murakami
year: 2019
where: in the bedroom
note: There wasn’t a cat.
a line: “In my life, whenever an inexplicable, illogical, disturbing event takes place (I’m not saying that it happens often, but it has a few times), I always come back to that circle—the circle with many centers but no circumference.”
story: The Wind Cave
author: Haruki Murakami
year: 2018
where: bus ride to Hankook
note: referred to me by my favorite New Yorker
a line: “When I was thirteen and my little sister was ten, the two of us travelled by ourselves to Yamanashi Prefecture during summer vacation.”
story: Kino
author: Haruki Murakami
year: 2017
where: in and around Saratoga
note: the tell-tale heart taps
a line: “All he could do was trust in the birds, in all the birds, with their wings and beaks.”
