Quote of the Day: Murakami Series (3)

"Everything is rigged, tied into that massive capital web, and beyond this web there's another web. Nobody's going anywhere. You throw a rock and it will come right back at you."
Haruki Murakami, Dansu, Dansu, Dansu (1988)

[I read somewhere that Murakami has fessed up to the influence of David Lynch and Twin Peaks on his fiction. And yet this, perhaps his most Twin Peaks-like novel was written some years before that show was aired...]

Quote of the Day: Murakami Series (2)

"For better or worse, the further from the midrange of things you go, the less the relative qualities matter. The same holds for wavelengths: Pass a certain point and you can hardly tell which of the two adjacent notes is higher in pitch, until finally you not only can't distinguish them, you can't hear them at all."
Haruki Murakami, Dansu, Dansu, Dansu (1988)

Quote of the Day: Murakami Series (1)

"The hotel should never have been built where it was. That was the first mistake, and everything got worse from there. Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine — not to say elegant — mess. No detail seemed right. Look at anything in the place and you'd find yourself tilting your head a few degrees. Not enough to cause any harm, nor enough to seem particularly odd. Who knows? You might get used to this slant on things (but if you did, you'd never be able to view the world again without holding your head out of true.)"
Haruki Murakami, Dansu, Dansu, Dansu (1988)

[A sojourn at the Dolphin Hotel —"that weirdly fateful venue...as much circumstance as place" — must be a bit like living in Guatemala!]