Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Very Bad Wizards
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Tolstoy's Insomnia
I love what he says about Tolstoy. All the time I had been watching the dish as my only thoughts had been of Vronsky and how an author like Tolstoy managed to control his characters so skillfully, but that very precision somehow denied them a kind of salvation. And Murkami is not describing her with a precision as if to let her find salvation. She also is denied salvation. Like he's... Oh, you think. The other people are described... Emprecise. We don't get that much precision about her, yeah. That's true. It's more a calm doing, his best Russian depressed. No. I don't think we know anybody
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