I had a day off today. This morning, I went to the library in the town next to ours. There, I borrowed six books by Haruki Murakami. After that, in a public room of that house, I wrote several ideas on my memo pad in English. Mainly, I wrote about Haruki because I have been following this "unique" author for about 35 years (even though I often tried to get separated from him because he sometimes published absolute flops).
Once when I was a teenager (in the 1990s), I couldn't find any suitable feeling in several Japanese cultures such as pop music, literature, and manga (even though I had not read any classical heritages of Japanese literature sincerely yet). At 16, I found a classmate sitting next to me was reading Haruki's "Pinball, 1973", which guided me to a new world. Yes, after that I started exploring the Haruki world passionately, such as "Norwegian Wood" and "Dance Dance Dance". Writing this, I can remember those youthful days.
After that, I went to the main house of my group home to see the main admin. We talked about a few issues such as the extra money from our city. After finishing that, I went back to my room to have a lunchbox. I went to the book café to see the owner and talked about the picture I had drawn (we exchanged our LINE addresses), and after that, I went to AEON. At the bookstore in there, I found quite a provoking book "Equality" by Thomas Piketty and Michael Sandel. I bought that.
After that, I had a roll of sushi called "ehoumaki [恵方巻]". In Japan, today is called "Setsubun [節分]" when Japanese people wish their luck by trying to let notorious demons out of their houses, and also have that kind of special sushi as a tradition. After that, I read that "Equality". Even though I can't follow those two intellectual's quite smart explanations about the current scenery, I found that Sandel tries to find out how we can rebuild certain "common good" beyond the separation/gap among us, and Piketty tries to explain how we can support that Sandel's opinion by controlling our life's wellness. However, I need to read this great book again and again.
