Status Updates From آوای موج‌ها

So far, it’s been quite a poetic book. I am reading the secondhand 1961 published version, therefore was very hesitant to underline sentences which I found interesting, but I also thought, “Hey, it’s my book now, I can do whatever the heck I want with it haha”, and anyway, I think it would give more life to the book, instead of letting it be merely an “artifact”

Bien cute todo hasta ahorita.

I had to force myself to put this book down so I can sleep.

My dad as the youngest of 4 boys was considered being adopted out like this after his mother died after the war.

Just as I felt towards Moby Dick I just finished reading, sea life is a whole other world. The technicalities of this lifestyle is so impressive as an outsider and ignorant person of it. Reminds me of Old Man and the Sea as well and makes me think about my grandfather who was a fisherman.

“The strange unrest was still with him this morning. But the vast ocean stretched away from the prow, where he was standing, and gradually the sight of it filled his body with the entregue of familiar…” must be nice to see the sea in daily life. It is an important element of the island country and is often incorporated in their arts and literature.

Too bad dialects can’t be translated.

“At the mere sound of the name his cheeks flushed and his heart pounded.”

The language is very vivid. I really love Japanese lit.