Ryu Murakami

In The Miso Soup

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  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    There are six categories of bonno,
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    This was her first time abroad, and she decided that since it’s a foreign country they must have a different god and that maybe the god the Catholics pray to loses his power here because the customs are different, not to mention the land itself.”
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    made her wonder if people here never came up against the kind of suffering where you can’t do anything but turn to your god for help
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    The Americans, like the Spanish, massacred millions of Indians, but I don’t think it was out of malevolence so much as plain old ignorance
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    and you can’t do something you can’t visualize yourself doing. Normally we don’t notice it, but we always have to picture ourselves doing something before we can match the image with an action.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    American kids—even down to the dark suntans and cornrows—and they can’t speak a word of English! But I guess they just like black people, huh?”
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    The foreigner’s enjoying himself, so maybe old Nippon isn’t so bad after all, in fact maybe this is a world-class bar, and we drink in places like this all the time, so maybe we’re happier than we realized, is how the reasoning goes.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    but I’m beginning to wonder if there’s still such a thing as a perfectly respectable woman in this country.
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    ast, a man from Texas, had told me how astonished he was when he went to Shibuya. He said: “I thought I was in Harlem or someplace, all those kids walking around looking like black hip-hop artists, wearing their Walkmans, some had skateboards, too, but what was amazing was, here they are completely copying the fashions of African-
  • Gathoni Nthukuhas quoted10 months ago
    I took the coins, thinking: If he had change, why didn’t he pull it out at the photo booth?
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