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    horn

    By MURAKAMI haruki

    translated by OSAKABE Yoshio

    trument sucs. Alt is tural  in a tart to consider suching seriously.

    be a horn?

    ?  me?

    An act of a person becoming a  carries deeper mystery t becoming a novelist, I believe. It is tery you can understand everyt. But t, not a . If I am a , an act of a person becoming a novelist looks mucrange.

    I imagine o encounter ernoon in a deep forest. During ccting, t. Or t tell ory of time in its boys complicated family background, a complex of its feature or its sexual hang-up.

    “I don’t kno a violin and flute,” t  gone abroad or skiing…” Since ternoon, t became an inseparable and perfect combination. After times like Flas, oday on tage and are playing t passage of Brao.

    Sitting on my seat in t o t suc a tuba in anot, ing for someone to walk by.

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    Pencil Sharpener

    Or, ty of Noboru atanabe, part I

    by MURAKAMI haruki

    translated by Copher Allison

    If t a guy named Noboru atanabe, I , still be using a ratty old pencil so Noboru atanabe, a so my possession. tune does not happen everyday.

    anabe came into my kitcely spied my old pencil sting on table. t day, I  tcable for a c bettle of soy sauce and t shaker.

    Noboru atanabe,  table top out of t at t time, since t or of