![]() ![]() As a reader I didn't care that he just brushed by her, because I felt like her recital was just there to get him up the mountain. I mostly felt that the girl was incidental to the story in Cream. Mod Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "I mean, he's centering a story around this girl from his past, but he can't remember her name. Since I'm doing music for this reread, I searched for four hands piano pieces by Mozart and this is what I got. (Thanks to Yeats always for permanently lodging disintegrating spirals in my mind.) So the center of the story doesn't quite hold, at least for me. I'll talk save that for when we get to that story.)Īll that said, am I being obtuse for just imagining a spiral when he talks about a circle with many centers and no circumference? Because I think a spiral fits fine and I didn't think it was that hard. (And rereading this also makes the story "First Person Singular" even more of a gut punch. But as the opener to the whole collection? Holy wow. I still wouldn't say that Murakami did anything particularly amazing inside this specific story. ![]() But now rereading it after my first read of the collection, it lights me on fire. I just reread "Cream" and I have to say that this story annoyed the daylights out of me the first time I read it. ![]()
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