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"If you feel like raping anybody in the middle of the night, don't get the wrong one," she said. "The unwrinkled body in the left bed is Naoko's."

Either this is a bad translation, or this book is not for me.

Is it normal for everyone in Japan to instantly sleep with one another regardless of age, personality, chemistry, etc. or is Murakami just a little bit obsessed with weird sex?

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My god, volume three is (so far) a true masterpiece.

If Walt can’t help me, I don’t know what will.

Is beauty truly objective and universal? Or merely the striving toward one’s notion of beauty?

It’s time.

Spent my last evening as a twenty-something-year-old reading what is, surely, one of the finest expositions on the nature of music in existence. The most convincing part of the chapter finds the author comparing the brevity or lengthiness of a piece of music, as well as the use of staccato or sustained notes, with that of the emotional representation that the piece attempts to render in the ear of the listener.

I want to try and finish this before I hit 30 next month. Nothing like a veritable dose of pessimism to kick off the new decade.

Es hat 189 Seiten gedauert, bis sie in Hogwarts angekommen sind. Dieses Buch ist ein echter Kampf.

The story of Hedy Lamarr is fascinating. Her praises deserve much singing.

“Let us not forget that ‘love of the planet’ all too often means hatred for those who inhabit it.”

This is a damaging generalisation and the fact that it is the default association drawn between those who wish to prevent ecological damage and those who are stridently misanthropic is one of the main barriers which must be breached before progress can be made in the direction of rational environmentalism.

Russia is to literature what Italy is to food