ok so now i'm about 150 and like i have to totally agree with Em and david that the dialogue is really bugging me. there was this part when mari and the musician were talking and it became this kind of argument or at least mari was taking it really offensively and i think it was about if the musician brought eri to the love hotel or not or something.... but i was getting really thrown off by it. i mean it felt maybe real like i can see someone (like mari) being despondent and closed off kind of getting really strangely offensive and over-reacting....especially at the age of like 19. but i was kind of distraught by the whole convo. i wanted the musician to be pissed off too but he was so taking it and trying to be understood. i donno.... maybe its just my own frustration with the unreal dialogue... or is it too real somehow?
anyway also any predictions what will happen to the office man? who works at veritech? and why is his office so important?
and where is eri? does mari have the power to get her out with some kind of revelation or is eri all on her own? what is the significance of her disappearing in real life and waking up in the TV? i kinda think it has something to do with her snow white status.
i'mcannot decide if the whole story is just simple and or if murakami will surprise me. i hope he surprises me. on the back of my copy of the book it says something about receiving the Kafka award and i keep hoping that it ends without revelation like Kafka.
ps. i went to the murikami show at the MOCA and there is a louis vitton store in the museum... selling stuff to people who are buying it! craziness!
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Yeah, so I don't know if you finished yet or not, but I agree with you about the revelation stuff. Its definitely better that it doesn't really go there and sort of explicitly give us a lesson, or reveal the metaphor of the man in the tv and how eri is transported back and forth. Is this just her dream I guess? Perhaps her fears about being nothing to anybody but a body has put her in the deep sleep, and has manifested itself into this nightmare of being stuck in a tv, or being watched by a faceless and sexually violent man (although I guess she doesn't know this, only we make the connection between the man in the tv and the man from the office who beats up the hooker).
yeah! I Love how all of these characters sort of come together metaphorically, and the main story line, in this psychological landscape that is Eri. Poor girl. IS her sleep real? ahh, That is my favorite mystery. I am happy that nothing is really resolved or not ultimate revelation. It's like clock-work how that story will play out over and over again. the beauty thing is the one strand I can't tie to anything else. Why create that played-out duality of beauty and ugliness.
totally agree with the beauty and ugliness thing.. tho i think it is definitely more complicated then that... thus resolve is probably impossible
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