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Banana Yoshimoto
Mar. 26th, 2008 08:01 pmFeeling rather independent this evening, I went out to get some food around 6pm. The darkening sky was all the colours of a bruise, apricot and purple and yellow and heavy grey, and it was raining a bit. I wandered for a few minutes, enjoying the fresh air, and then snuggled up in a corner of the pub to have dinner and finish my book.
I love, love, love Banana Yoshimoto. When I read her books, I feel like I recognise them, because even though the situations are strange, the emotions just leap from the page straight into me. Reading her books feels like saying "yes". The parts I don't quite get, I feel like I'm missing something profound. This is from the one I just finished, Kitchen:
"We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that we make the choice unconciously. I think I did - but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don't mean this in the fatalistic sense; we're constantly making choices. With the breaths that we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct. And so some of us will inevitably find ourselves rolling around in a puddle on some roof in a strange place with a takeout katsudon in the middle of winter, looking up at the night sky, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Ah, but the moon was lovely. "
-- Banana Yoshimoto
I love, love, love Banana Yoshimoto. When I read her books, I feel like I recognise them, because even though the situations are strange, the emotions just leap from the page straight into me. Reading her books feels like saying "yes". The parts I don't quite get, I feel like I'm missing something profound. This is from the one I just finished, Kitchen:
"We all believe we can choose our own path from among the many alternatives. But perhaps it's more accurate to say that we make the choice unconciously. I think I did - but now I knew it, because now I was able to put it into words. But I don't mean this in the fatalistic sense; we're constantly making choices. With the breaths that we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct. And so some of us will inevitably find ourselves rolling around in a puddle on some roof in a strange place with a takeout katsudon in the middle of winter, looking up at the night sky, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Ah, but the moon was lovely. "
-- Banana Yoshimoto
