Haruki Murakami.

"Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 17:29:06 +0200

“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”

- Haruki Murakami - South of the Border, West of the Sun

Dance with the Sheep Man by Maki Kobayashi

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:19:10 +0200

Dance with the Sheep Man by Maki Kobayashi

applique88: Afterdark haruki murakami

Mon, 28 May 2012 06:06:37 +0200

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Afterdark

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Naoko, Norwegian Wood

Mon, 28 May 2012 02:00:33 +0200

Naoko, Norwegian Wood

Norwegian Wood by hacco “I want you always to remember me....

Sun, 27 May 2012 10:16:55 +0200

Norwegian Wood by hacco

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”

——-

“I really like you, Midori. A lot.”

“How much is a lot?”

“Like a spring bear,”

"Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the ground. You forget to..."

Sun, 27 May 2012 10:12:23 +0200

“Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the ground. You forget to even look at the night sky.”

- Haruki Murakami

Kafka on the Shore, Alternate cover (by Teo Yu Siang)

Sun, 27 May 2012 04:22:19 +0200

Kafka on the Shore, Alternate cover

(by Teo Yu Siang)

Photo

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:40:01 +0200

"I’m really realistic. But when I write, I write weird."

Sat, 26 May 2012 12:48:45 +0200

“I’m really realistic. But when I write, I write weird.”

- Haruki Murakami

Photo

Sat, 26 May 2012 05:48:25 +0200

"I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 23:07:56 +0200

“I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?”

- Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Photo

Fri, 25 May 2012 15:17:17 +0200

The meals in Norwegian Wood

Fri, 25 May 2012 04:32:47 +0200

The meals in Norwegian Wood

Pepper Adams Quintet - The Long Two/Four “Rummaging around...

Thu, 24 May 2012 23:01:00 +0200

Pepper Adams Quintet - The Long Two/Four

“Rummaging around in old shelves of LPs is one of the few things that makes life worth living, as far as I’m concerned. On that particular day I’d located a used copy of Pepper Adam’s recording for Riverside called 10 to 4 at the 5 Spot. It was a live recording of the Pepper Adams Quintet, with Donald Byrd on trumpet, recorded in New York at the Five Spot jazz club. “10 to 4,” of course, meant ten minutes till four o’clock, meaning that they played such a hot set they went on till dawn. This copy of the album was a first pressing, in mint condition, and was going for only seven or eight dollars. I owned the Japanese version of the record and had listened to it so much it was all scratched. Finding an original recording in this good shop and at this price seemed, to exaggerate a little, like a minor miracle. I was overjoyed as I bought the record, and just as I was exiting the shop a young man passed me and asked, “Hey, do you have the time?” I glanced at my watch and automatically answered, “Yeah, it’s ten to four.”

After I said this I noticed the coincidence and gulped. What in the world is going on? I wondered. Was the god of jazz hovering in the sky above Boston, giving me a wink and a smile and saying, “Yo, you dig it?”“

— Haruki Murakami - Chance Traveler

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Tengo, 1Q84

Thu, 24 May 2012 22:33:41 +0200

Tengo, 1Q84

Kafka on the Shore

Thu, 24 May 2012 15:21:46 +0200

Kafka on the Shore

"Passing the station, I thought about Naoko and our endless walking. It had all started from there. I..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:55 +0200

“Passing the station, I thought about Naoko and our endless walking. It had all started from there. I realized that if I hadn’t run into Naoko on the train that Sunday in May, my life would have been very different from what it was now. but then I changed my mind: no, even if we hadn’t met that day, my life might not have been any different. We had met that day because we were supposed to meet. If we hadn’t met then and there, we would have met somewhere else sometime. I didn’t have any basis for thinking this: it was just a feeling.”

- Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)

The Sheep Man by Maki Kobayashi

Thu, 24 May 2012 03:14:53 +0200

The Sheep Man by Maki Kobayashi

Manuscript pages of 1Q84, the new boxed set on top.

Wed, 23 May 2012 17:09:49 +0200

Manuscript pages of 1Q84, the new boxed set on top.

Haruki after dark

Wed, 23 May 2012 16:56:39 +0200

Haruki after dark