It's almost as if going through the motions of life has in some ways stopped her from reflecting on what's happened to her. If that's true, and I think something like it probably is, she's always had this scream that's locked up inside her that can't find a voice. And so it doesn't have time. She has kind of turned off that part of her mind that would even lead to that self-discovery or that insight or self-knowledge. Now that she's not sleeping and she gets this time, she reads Anna Krenn in three times and she goes to Dostoevsky.
David and Tamler take the first excursion into the work of Haruki Murakami and talk about his short story “Sleep.” A thirty-year-old woman, the wife of a dentist and mother of a young boy, has a terrifying dream and when she wakes up, she no longer needs to sleep. This isn’t insomnia, it’s something else – she has never felt so alive, strong, and awake. She can swim laps for an hour in the afternoon and read Anna Karenina with perfect concentration until dawn. What is this condition? Is it real? What does it tell us about her past, her sense of self, her alienation from friends, family, and her role? This is a banger of a story folks, check it out.
Plus - if you had to say one word or sentence to distinguish yourself from an AI, what would you say?
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