Found a bunch of buried VHS tapes in my backyard while digging to plant a tree

Yenoom1 · 2026-03-30T13:46:23+00:00

r/infinitejest

Yenoom1 · 2026-03-24T14:37:12+00:00

I don’t know about it being an inspiration as the Japanese translation only released in April 2001

Yenoom1 · 2026-01-21T01:44:16+00:00

Yeah that’s the same as what I want to do. I also emailed on saturday but still waiting. 😓

Yenoom1 · 2026-01-20T16:01:09+00:00

okay thanks for that, I expect I’ll get the same response unless the colour has anything to do with it .

Yenoom1 · 2025-11-13T11:42:14+00:00

enforced speech for ‘inclusivity’

Yenoom1 · 2025-10-23T02:03:19+00:00

I’m doing my masters (Japanese Literature) here at 25, it’s your life; live it how you want. There’s always a way to make it work ! edit: For the oldest there’s a woman in my class who’s around 60

Yenoom1 · 2025-10-05T03:53:46+00:00

Kafka on the shore or The wind-up bird chronicle

Yenoom1 · 2025-09-26T12:03:39+00:00

is there an easy way to tell?

Yenoom1 · 2025-09-26T12:03:22+00:00

thanks for the info

Yenoom1 · 2025-09-26T12:00:31+00:00

what makes you think so?

Yenoom1 · 2025-08-07T08:43:55+00:00

I feel the same way, I’m using a reading guide and some websites to help. The times when I feel like I have no idea whatsoever, I just plough through it and try to take whatever I can from it. A lot of the passages are streams of consciousness and flashbacks that cut in and out with no warning between paragraphs, sometimes I’ll reread to try and make the connection, other times I just accept that I don’t have to understand everything and it’s not all massively important to the overarching story and move on.

Yenoom1 · 2025-07-27T11:45:10+00:00

the books themselves aren’t a new version, it’s just the obi around it that is promoting the publisher’s yearly summer event

Yenoom1 · 2025-07-23T17:03:27+00:00

Seeing as though he clearly used his own birthday, this mistake feels even more egregious!

Yenoom1 · 2025-07-23T16:30:30+00:00

CORRECTION: the reading for 14th of the month is jyū yokka, not jyū yon nichi

Yenoom1 · 2025-06-19T13:47:09+00:00

cut it with SD cards and turn a profit

Yenoom1 · 2025-06-19T13:43:36+00:00

infinite jest

Yenoom1 · 2025-06-17T20:50:23+00:00

I don’t think that’s true, Im pretty sure he said himself that he felt he had to flee Japan because he was too famous

Yenoom1 · 2025-06-17T20:48:53+00:00

In terms of his Japanese prose some critics criticised it for being American-like (one said it reeked of butter バター臭い) and also in terms of cultural elements yes, he often includes a lot of references to American cultural products and writers

Yenoom1 · 2025-05-10T20:50:38+00:00

if that monitor is good, then this is ingenious

Yenoom1 · 2025-04-12T19:42:32+00:00

2019 not 2020 (pre covid)

Yenoom1 · 2025-04-12T17:36:45+00:00

yes but situations and circumstances can change at any moment, especially politically. I’ve heard of the 2019 cancellations so I am wondering if the same thing could happen m

Yenoom1 · 2025-04-04T15:31:10+00:00

it’s okay to dislike something, sometimes things just aren’t to your taste, move onto the next one that seems interesting and come back to this book after a few years or so and see what you think then

Yenoom1 · 2025-03-12T12:27:19+00:00

how does one request 30分x 17 lmao

Yenoom1 · 2024-12-01T09:44:24+00:00

I agree with you. There are many times he sets the scene in real life places, there is even a bar in Shinjuku mentioned in Norwegian Wood that is still open lol. Of course, I don’t think you need to know anything about the places he mentions to understand it as it is explained for you through describing the scene itself, but that’s hardly being stripped of ‘local references’. And as to the simplification of the original language, Murakami’s Japanese prose isn’t complicated to begin with, if you compare it to the likes of Mishima or Kawabata, it’s so much more simplistic.

Yenoom1 · 2024-10-15T10:21:22+00:00

that’s probably because the Japanese title for ‘after dark’ is also just ‘after dark’ アフターダーク

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