no one- not even yourself- is going to hurt you

ventured into this novel with an open mind, gordy first introduced kafka on the shore to me, and i read his copy of it. its such a peculiar strange alluring novel. so many things i cannot fathom nor wrap my mind around but so many feelings i understand (or perhaps i dont) but these feelings kafka endured, it becomes secondhand for me. it is hard to imagine how any 15 year old boy is capable of such an offhand manner of living, or falling in love with the past self of a person currently still alive in the present, but this is fiction and physics does not have to be be consistent in fiction. i feel every bit as enamoured as he is, and for a brief moment i might have felt what its like to be in love with two variations of the same person. perhaps we all have.

it still puzzles me, if johnnie walker and kafka's father are the same person, who the hell is colonel sanders???? and what caused the rice bowl hill incident? i guess i'll never know and there isnt really an answer, i do know that if you believe in a prophecy hard enough, it'll come true


kafka on the shore- haruki murakami, left little claw marks all over my heart, pried open my mind a little, made me feel alot more