Norwegian Wood

androgynous

That’s what distinguishes us from the outside world: most people go about their lives unconscious of their deformities, while in this little world of ours the deformities themselves are a precondition.

You try too hard to make life fit your way of doing things. If you don’t want to spend time in an insane asylum, you have to open up a little more and let yourself go with life’s natural flow.

Thelonious Monk playing “Honeysuckle Rose”.

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

because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

Reiko moved on to the Beatles, playing “Norwegian Wood”, “Yesterday”, “Michelle”, and “Something”. She sang and played “Here Comes the Sun”, then played “The Fool on the Hill”. I laid seven matches in a row.

If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.

Streaming in through the window, the moonlight cast long shadows and splashed the walls with a touch of diluted Indian ink.