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
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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