Norwegian Wood

androgynous

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

“A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do but what he should do.”

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start – the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless. Now,

All we are doing is telling each other things that can only be told by the rubbing together of two imperfect lumps of flesh.

zelkova tree

and she looks into my eyes as if trying to catch the image of a minnow that has darted across the pool of a limpid spring.

that we are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it: that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities.

Brahms’ Fourth Symphony.

“People are strange when you’re a stranger.”