As we read Anna Karenina, we have at least a little bit of an inkling that this is about a woman who feels alienated from herself and her life because of a kind of patriarchal structure. The husband doesn't seem like a bad guy; the son seems like actually a pretty good happy kid. But the more you hear about her own relation to them or connection to them, you realize they've become like hostile forces in her life.
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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