“I love listening to the Lovin’ Spoonful. Their music is sort of laid-back and never pretentious. Listening to this soothing music brings back a lot of memories of the 1960s. Nothing really special, though. If they were to make a movie about my life (just the thought of which scares me), these would be the scenes they’d leave on the cutting-room floor. “We can leave this episode out,” the editor would explain. “It’s not bad, but it’s sort of ordinary and doesn’t amount to much.” Those kinds of memories - unpretentious, commonplace. But for me, they’re all meaningful and valuable. As each of these memories flits across my mind, I’m sure I unconsciously smile, or give a slight frown. Commonplace they might be, but the accumulation of these memories has led to one result: me. Me here and now, on the north shore of Kauai. Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.“ 

Yukaridaki satirlari Haruki Murakami‘nin daha once de alintiladigim What I Talk About When I Talk About Running kitabindan aldim. Su hayatta gercekten de baskalarina siradan gelebilecek ama bizi biz yapan kucuk mutluluklar ve uzuntuler yasayip duruyoruz. Murakami guzel yakalamis her zamanki gibi..