Comments for An Unreliable Witness

Comment on Three times removed by lifeofahobo

lifeofahobo — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:36:18 +0000

I like your blog… you tortured soul. Keep it up. Or not.

Comment on Three times removed by Mia

Mia — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:55:09 +0000

And yet, yes. How much I miss your writing…

Comment on Three times removed by wrenna

wrenna — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 22:09:27 +0000

you write beautiful things with no apparent effort at all.

Comment on Of missing cats and wind-up birds by daveb

daveb — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:53:50 +0000

Excellent “review”. I loved the journey of reading it, and was a bit sad as I neared the close. I am with you in that I love quiet places by myself, where I can think about the mystery of the world around us. Mine happens to be a rock in the woods. You’re so right, Wind-up bird chronicle is a story of one such person who gains access to another side of this world for a little while, and decides to explore it. I loved the way the book simply wound down and then concluded. You say the haze lasts about a week? I will make sure to enjoy the next few days.

Comment on Words is an anagram of Sword by ellie

ellie — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:18:20 +0000

Ditto

Comment on Words is an anagram of Sword by wrenna

wrenna — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:59:50 +0000

Nothing better than a man with a pen.

Comment on Tunnel visions by wrenna

wrenna — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 03:11:51 +0000

It’s been too long without your nonsense words.

Comment on Tunnel visions by Feedme

Feedme — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:35:09 +0000

I hope you don’t mind but I quoted a line for your poem on an artwork.
I hope you like it.
Feedme

Comment on Of missing cats and wind-up birds by Hedorian

Hedorian — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:59:22 +0000

Thank you. Thank you for writing this review.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is probably my favourite book. It took me on an indescribably intense inner journey. And after reading it, I didn’t feel the same. It was a life-changing experience, even if that sounds a bit too dramatic. I guess, being an introvert, I felt more identified with this novel than with anything else I’d read until then. It was my first Murakami novel, and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.
And I thank you because you conveyed my thoughts about the novel almost perfectly, and it moves me. I haven’t seen many people talk about it like that, more often than not they find it a boring, non-sensical mess. That’s prefectly cool. But it’s nice to see someone appreciate it the way I think it deserves. :)

Comment on Ti Li Yo Li by An Unreliable Witness

An Unreliable Witness — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:11:49 +0000

Absolutely, yes. As long as after counselling from me you don’t mind feeling worse rather than better.

Comment on Ti Li Yo Li by wrenna

wrenna — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:38:45 +0000

So very nice to see your triumphant return. Will you be available for free counseling sessions then?

Comment on The drone of productivity by Sid

Sid — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 17:07:58 +0000

Dear Mr.Witness,
Are you happy with your life? Do you feel you matter, to yourself if not others? Do you believe you have done justice to the time you have been given so far? I am curious… nothing else. I dont know why, but I feel for you. deeply. Take care, sir.

Comment on Rethink, return and restart by isabelle

isabelle — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:31:00 +0000

Awww, I clicked thinking it would lead to well, some thing.
Does it/ I count as an April fool as I was four days late?
Oh well, it made me smirk. But you should write a bit more in here; I wish you did.

Comment on Rethink, return and restart by ellie

ellie — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:08:18 +0000

Some of us still do it, but it’s not 2004 anymore!

Comment on Rethink, return and restart by wrenna

wrenna — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:01:55 +0000

I love my blogs about kittens.

Comment on Rethink, return and restart by Mia

Mia — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:40:44 +0000

[Ha. Ha. Ha. And that’s to celebrate April and fools / end of it.] Blogging is not dead though. It’s dead if you want it to be dead. It’s dead if we follow the trend. It’s dead when they say — look OMG it’s dead. They also use(d) to say that 2+2 = 5, and they still say they want to protect us save us give us the best and make us happy, very happy. Well, you can choose. Kittens OR writing this fucking blog. I used to love it. I still read old posts in the archives. It’s alive, I can hear the urls breathing.

Comment on Of missing cats and wind-up birds by Julia Schwartz

Julia Schwartz — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:47:21 +0000

I am a fan of Murakami’s writing as I think he offers such an interesting amalgam of oddness and unfolding, non linearity, but within the scaffolding of existential themes
I loved Norwegian Wood (the most straightforward) the best, and also really liked Kafka and Wind up Bird. I experience the surrealistic touches as concretizations (graphic illustrations) of psychological states, emotional expressions. I had the same impression while watching the movie Synecdoche by Charlie Kaufman– a pretty perfect existential film– and the oddnesses and surreal aspects then make perfect sense.

Here’s a weird thing: I finished the Wind up Bird on march 6, 2011 at 2 AM. At 10 AM, I heard the wind up bird outside my window! I’m not kidding! it sounded just like what I would have imagined the wind up bird sounding like. And 5 days later the massive 9.0 earthquake hit Japan. So that got me thinking: what is the significance of the wind up bird? It seems to me to be setting the events in motion in the book, so when i heard that it felt ominous…

Comment on Sandbox by um

um — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 03:37:47 +0000

How do you do that thing where your perfect?

Comment on Putting the E in Christmas by An Unreliable Witness

An Unreliable Witness — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:00:11 +0000

This is sadly true, I admit. Back in my day, we were just thrashed to within an inch of our lives by the headteacher, then sent to work down the coal mine for six months as a punishment and fed only on gruel and water. Sigh.

Comment on Putting the E in Christmas by Ani Smith

Ani Smith — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:44:10 +0000

hahaha. ASBOs weren’t even invented when you were in school. :-P