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64 pages, Paperback
First published February 22, 2018
. . .This was Tokyo, after all; I was no longer in the provinces. But I was at least counting on running water to make up for it. . . . Even in provincial town like the one I came from, piped water was no longer a rarity by then. . . . Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains -- in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone, and the tap water, the fountains, and the ponds, they're all mine. But in that house there was no water I could call my own. (p. 13)
You're afraid of the water that stole your husband, but all you can do is consort with it. It's always around you. As far as you're concerned, he didn't die, he turned to water. What happens on land vanishes in water, and the reverse is true, too.
“In the years to come, that light will steadily grow clearer and stronger, the watery realm will grow more beautiful in your eyes, and you will enter that realm. That's how I hope it will be. Because I love you. And I don't want to think that one day you will die.”
livro: Asleep da banana yoshimoto — sonhos, memória, limiar da realidade
filme: oasis de lee chang-dong — romance complexo que critica o capacitismo
"People depend on their misfortunes. We curse them, but we're actually wedded to them, proud of them even."
"Living right in the heart of Tokyo itself is quite like living in the mountains – in the midst of so many people, one hardly sees anyone."
“We mortals who dwell on land have always imagined, at the bottom of the sea, another world where we are not meant to go, chill and beautiful. (…) An underworld. (…) Human emotions dissolve away as in a dream.“
“What she didn't know was that, when you hand them something they don't want to accept, human beings turn into hollow, transparent, oblivious creatures.”
“For a long time, though, she constantly returned to the old house in her dreams.”
“She knew these things belonged in dreams.”
"People depend on their misfortunes.
We curse them, but actually we're wedded to them, proud of them even.
And you're no exception.
You're afraid of the water that stole your husband, but all you can do is consort with it.
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Water is your greatest fear, but the world of water is also where your deepest fears find a hearing.