On any given day, something claims our attention [literally “grabs our hearts”: kokoro o toraeru]. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a child, an old Gene Pitney record. A parade of trivia with no place to go. Things that bump around in our consciousness for two or three days then go back to wherever they came from… to darkness. We’ve got all these wells dug in our hearts. While above the wells, birds flit back and forth.

— Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1983

October 8th, 2012 at 11:00am — 39 notes