“So the day after next, I bought a pile of colourful macaroons at the macaroon shop in the arcade….I placed the box of macaroons and cherries on the coffee table with a polite bow. Thanking me with a smile, she took the two boxes to the kitchen and soon returned with some coffee and theContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: The Idiocy of Macaroons (Mieko Kawakami)”
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RKS Japanese Literature: That 2 p.m. Tokyo Feeling (Mieko Kawakami)
“It was two o’clock in the afternoon-that most vacant time of the day when the laundry is done and the vacuum put away but it’s still too early to go food shopping. The time when you feel most keenly that you are useless and the world is silently laughing at you from afar. No matterContinue reading “RKS Japanese Literature: That 2 p.m. Tokyo Feeling (Mieko Kawakami)”
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