Quote of the day From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

After finishing First Person Singular: Stories, I am enjoying another Haruki Murakami book, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. Here is a passage I read today that I enjoyed:

It was as though we were speaking to each other in two different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been a touch more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya (kindle location 1480).