連日來的工作，星期一發生的悲劇，以及各種餘波，都讓人透不過氣來。靜下來的時候，發覺所有的感覺都消失了，麻木了，只剩下了軀殼。
星期一黃昏攝於新居的天台上，那時一切還好…
從書架上拿起了村上春樹的《神的孩子都在跳舞》，是一本以「日本人集體於電視看到了悲劇發生的創傷後遺症」為引發點的短篇小說集。讀完第一篇故事後，內心深處像被玻璃棒攪拌了一下一樣，又開始動起來了。
閱讀真是一種非常好的治療方法。
對手
宮本武藏：
「面對舉刀相向的對手，卻希望他認同、讚賞自己，這份心情並不容易抑制…」
《浪客行》＃32 – 井上雄彥
1Q84 and THE RED BOOK
讀完了 George Orwell 的 Nineteen Eighty-Four後，一口氣重讀了村上春樹最初的三部作品，包括有《聽風的歌》、《1973年的彈珠玩具》及《尋羊冒險記》，再把《舞舞舞》讀到一半，最後終於把期待已久的《1Q84》也一拼讀完過後，感覺像剛從月球回㺫地面一様，滿足中帶點失落。
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sooner or later
“I know how you must feel,” continued the Rat. “But sooner or later, it was bound to disappear. Me and you, these girls with their certain somethings, we’ve all got to go sometime.”
A Wild SHeep Chase – Haruki Murakami
Nineteen Eighty-Four
為了替即將於11月推出的村上春樹的《1Q84》做充閱讀前的凖備，
必須要趕快在10月內完成由 George Orwell 於1949年出版的 《Nineteen Eighty-Four》。
同樣關於戰爭、個體面對政治系統的爭扎等主題，
村上春樹與 George Orwell 究竟會有怎樣不同的演繹呢？
實在令人相當期待……
圓環
武藏：
「挑起戰鬥，尋求敵人這種事，我不會做了。不過，要把我首級奉送給踏進這個圓環裡的人，我又不是做得到那種事的人。我不會追趕離開的人，但我會斬殺踏進來的人。」
植田良平：
「『已經離開了互相殺戮的漩渦』，真的離開了嗎？
武藏，表面上你警告過他們不要踏進圓環，但事實上，我卻覺得你是在引誇他們闖進來呢。」
《浪客行》＃31 – 井上雄彥
seventeen
When I was seventeen, I never imagine that life would be so constrained, that there would be so few opportunities.
- Michel Houellebecq “Atomised”
Don’t care
I suppose that’s old age for you – you don’t care much about anything; you don’t feel bitter anymore, but you don’t feel terribly happy either. You spent most of your time worrying about the state of your insides
- Michel Houellebecq “Atomised”
sub-atomic
He was increasingly aware that there was something fundamental missing in their analysis of gene mutations; and that this was probably related to phenomenon at the atomic or sub-atomic level.
- Michel Houellebecq “Atomised”
Two people kissing
“Two people kissing,” I said, “always look like they’re fish. Two people kissing, what does it mean, anyway?”
Damien said, “it means you trust the other person enough to let them touch you.”
“No it doesn’t. People kiss people they don’t trust all the time. Especially in Europe and at parties. Think of all the people we know who’ll kiss anybody. Does that mean they’re ‘trusting’?”
“I think it does, yes.” B said. This B is was stubborn. “They trust a lot of people, is all.”
B kissed Damian. Two people kissing always loook like fish.
- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”
After. Or before. But never during.
If something’s going to happen for you, it will, you can’t make it happen. And it never does happen until you’re past the point where you care whether it happens or not. An actress friend told me that after she didn’t want money any more and after she didn’t want jewels any more, that’s when she got money and jewels. I guess it’s for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won’t make you go crazy. After you stop wanting them is when you can handle having them. Or before. But never during. If you get things when you really want them, you go crazy. Everything becomes distorted when something you really want is sitting in your lap.
- Andy Warhol “From A to B and Back Again”