Like all of his albums you will find yourself leaning in closely and hanging on every word, hoping to catch some eternal and elusive truth.

Did you know that Murakami also translates raymond carver into japanese?

I know lots of people don’t like the fat lady is god speech at the end, but I like it. Not being as clever as the Glass clan (or many of others out there), and perhaps too sentimental, like the idea of (excuse me brushing off my psych degree here) Csikszentmihalyi-ian flow being the jesus prayer.

My question is, why would you be opposed to it? Is it because it is a bit heavy handed, too grade philosophy/religion 101, too obvious?

I am constantly evaluating my life path and trying to make up my mind on what to pursue. Feeling, like the choices I have worked to have ahead of me are all unappealing and wondering how I turned out so wrong.
I just wanted to point out that I like that Grushin let the bureaucrat and his old artist friend feel dissatisfied in the end. I guess it is just natural to feel like no matter what path we take most of us are going to wonder how we turned out so wrong.