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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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“When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”  

First Murakami book (2009) / First [of many paintings] (2012)

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The “ears” slice should be about twice as large, really. 

And where is the place for awkward sex scenes?

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"I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I’d close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people’s voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I’d probably never know."

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"I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling."

Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart (via ovacadoo)

Or, as I refer to it when talking to Andy, “horrific sentimentality”. 

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Yes. This novel, this author, this feeling.

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Hey, Candace, look…

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I’m barely fifteen or twenty pages into 1Q84 and Murakami has already name-dropped a classical composer and provided a description of his female lead’s ear.

You didn’t waste any time on that, did you, Haruki?

Haruki Murakami.: New: Murakami Places →

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Murakami cats - we have a little Christmas gift for you! In our efforts to keep this little blog fresh and interesting for you guys we’ve come up with this new little project called Murakami Places. The main idea is to collect all the important locations in Haruki Murakami’s stories and put them…

I’m a big fan of this idea. Now, to get to Japan, somehow…

A little addition to Murakami’s “Bad Sex Award”-Nomination …

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“A freshly made ear and a freshly made vagina look very much alike, Tengo thought. Both appeared to be turned outward, trying to listen closely to something – something like a distant bell.”

— Haruki Murakami - 1Q84

This explains why Haruki-san was among the nominees, doesn’t it? This and your replies on other awkward sex scenes in Murakami books.

Poor Haruki really struggles with the sex scenes in his books! Here’s more of the Fuka-Eri & Tengo part in 1Q84:

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I adore Murakami but LOL.

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Murakami’s Tokyo. For his cover article on the novelist Haruki Murakami, Sam Anderson visited some key places from Murakami’s life and work.

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Chip Kidd on designing Murakami’s 1Q84.

Side note: After seeing this video, I make take back everything I said earlier.

And what a gorgeous design it is. *drool*

I’m mad at myself for not getting my hands on this yet (truth be told, I prefer softcover and want it to match my other books by him). Murakami doing parallel universes, though? I’m down.

"Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on."

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"While you are cooking spaghetti, you think about many things. So many things happen in your mind while you are cooking spaghetti. And you are getting kind of philosophical while you are cooking spaghetti."

Haruki Murakami on cooking spaghetti (via murakamistuff)

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"Before I was married, I cooked spaghetti just for myself. It’s a very lonely task, to cook spaghetti for yourself. So I think its kind of natural that you think about loneliness when you cook spaghetti for yourself. You know, when you’re making a sandwich for yourself you don’t think about loneliness so much. But when you cook spaghetti, it’s different."

Haruki Murakami on the difference between spaghetti and sandwiches (via murakamistuff)

I love his spaghetti hang-up, as evidenced by the first chapter of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and “The Year of Spaghetti.”

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