14 Nov 2007 Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
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Rating: ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼ ☼

Comments: Such a beautiful book. There are so many hidden layers to this one. So simple, yet so profound.

“There’s a great line by Groucho Marx,” I said. “She’s so in love with me she doesn’t know anything. That’s why she’s in love with me.”

Way back when the Sam Peckinpah movie The Wild Bunch premiered, a woman journalist raised her hand at the press conference and asked the following: “Why in the world do you have to show so much blood all over the place?” She was pretty worked up about it. One of the actors, Ernest Borgnine, looked a bit perplexed and fielded the question. “Lady, did you ever see anyone shot by a gun without bleeding?” This film came out at the height of the Vietnam War.

I love that line. That’s gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way. And bleeding. Shooting and bleeding.

Every story has a time to be told, I convinced her. Otherwise you’ll forever be a prisoner to the secret inside you.

We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. Like a small flame. A careful, fortunate few cherish that flame, nurture it, hold it as a torch to light their way. But once that flame goes out, it’s gone forever.

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3 Responses

  1. Interesting …. i like this idea of sharing paragraphs … can be developed as a forum or social site / forum where all share their fav paragraphs, quotes. from my xeroxed pages i took out some of the paragraphs in this post:

    http://siddharths.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/i-read-it-now-you-read-it/

  2. Make sure you abide by the fair-use laws though. Thanks for the link.

  3. ya i was wondering same … thought of putting a disclaimer …however I don’t think copying few paragraphs is in fair use … intent is not for gaining any commercial mileage ….and also it is not affecting the value of writers or publishers work … in fact I feel these paragraphs can serve as a teaser for some to go ahead buy these books … what say ?

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