two things of two things :p
Hmm.. it's been a while, but not a whole lot has changed. Two things, I suppose.. or maybe more, since I didn't actually think very hard before I said that.
Number one: I'm back home for July. My original plan was to be home for most likely the entire rest of the summer, but since my landlord is an amazingly nice guy and said he would let me stick around if I got all of the stuff together for the house in exchange, I'm going to be doing that for august.. and perhaps also doing some odd jobs for extra cash. We'll see how that goes... I was really surprised that he would offer me free rent, though; it just goes to show you that some people are really really nice when they don't have anything to lose. If I did leave and not come back, it probly wouldn't make him able to rent the place for the summer anyway, since I'll be back come school and he has no reason really to stop me from being back. The main thing, I think, is that he wants to make sure the people he gives rooms to are nice and clean and don't destroy the place while they're there... I think I heard from his son who was there earlier in my college career that he wants to sell it once everybody graduates, so it's gotta stay in good shape or that won't work too well.
Number two: well, if there is a number two it would have to be something like that I've discovered something about myself that I didn't know earlier, or a big collection of nothings. I don't have the first, so I guess it'll be the second...
Haruki Murakami! I finished the book fo short stories I have by him. They raised a lot of questions in my mind, not necessarily about the stories themselves.. I also got to thinking about what the purpose of writing is. I've always thought it was some sort of method of subconsciously altering people for the better, or even consciously altering them by having them figure out a message from what you put forward, and when I started this chain of thought I was thinking that I didn't know if that was the kind of agenda that Haruki Murakami had. I mean, the thing of it is that his stories are often rather harsh to their protagonists - "A Slow Boat to China" and "The Dancing Dwarf", for example, though probly just about the body of the book - and I at first found myself thinking that there was a fatalism within them that was a slow virus to hope or something. Now that I think about it, though, I realize I was being needlessly simplistic about it all.
It seems as though there are at least two ways to think about what he wrote in The Elephant Vanishes, at least from my perspective. The dark endings and twists of the stories can be illustrations of the madness and interest and adventure of life, or they could be sort of backwards fables designed to make us think about the things that we could do better than these people, or in some cases the one thing that life could have been so much better had they done. I'm starting to think after I've put all that forward that the best answer is both.. and I'm thinking even more that I need to do two things.
I need to read more haruki murakami...
and I need to write more stuff.
With any luck, soon enough I'll be doing both.
Number one: I'm back home for July. My original plan was to be home for most likely the entire rest of the summer, but since my landlord is an amazingly nice guy and said he would let me stick around if I got all of the stuff together for the house in exchange, I'm going to be doing that for august.. and perhaps also doing some odd jobs for extra cash. We'll see how that goes... I was really surprised that he would offer me free rent, though; it just goes to show you that some people are really really nice when they don't have anything to lose. If I did leave and not come back, it probly wouldn't make him able to rent the place for the summer anyway, since I'll be back come school and he has no reason really to stop me from being back. The main thing, I think, is that he wants to make sure the people he gives rooms to are nice and clean and don't destroy the place while they're there... I think I heard from his son who was there earlier in my college career that he wants to sell it once everybody graduates, so it's gotta stay in good shape or that won't work too well.
Number two: well, if there is a number two it would have to be something like that I've discovered something about myself that I didn't know earlier, or a big collection of nothings. I don't have the first, so I guess it'll be the second...
Haruki Murakami! I finished the book fo short stories I have by him. They raised a lot of questions in my mind, not necessarily about the stories themselves.. I also got to thinking about what the purpose of writing is. I've always thought it was some sort of method of subconsciously altering people for the better, or even consciously altering them by having them figure out a message from what you put forward, and when I started this chain of thought I was thinking that I didn't know if that was the kind of agenda that Haruki Murakami had. I mean, the thing of it is that his stories are often rather harsh to their protagonists - "A Slow Boat to China" and "The Dancing Dwarf", for example, though probly just about the body of the book - and I at first found myself thinking that there was a fatalism within them that was a slow virus to hope or something. Now that I think about it, though, I realize I was being needlessly simplistic about it all.
It seems as though there are at least two ways to think about what he wrote in The Elephant Vanishes, at least from my perspective. The dark endings and twists of the stories can be illustrations of the madness and interest and adventure of life, or they could be sort of backwards fables designed to make us think about the things that we could do better than these people, or in some cases the one thing that life could have been so much better had they done. I'm starting to think after I've put all that forward that the best answer is both.. and I'm thinking even more that I need to do two things.
I need to read more haruki murakami...
and I need to write more stuff.
With any luck, soon enough I'll be doing both.