9:38 a.m. - 2006-05-18
sputnik sweetheart
from sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami
"Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flowing into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?"
Another passage, but slightly ____ (what's that word for something that's been said/felt too many times, that is quite apathetic to bring up again... cliche?) But somehow, he wrote it quite well.
"So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us - that's snatched right out of our hands - even if we are left completely changed people with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives, in silence. We draw nearer to our alloted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness."
