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2019/64: A Tale for the Time Being -- Ruth Ozeki
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 06:41 am2019/64: A Tale for the Time Being -- Ruth Ozeki
Some time after the Japanese tsunami, a Japanese-American writer named Ruth is walking along the beach near her home in British Columbia when she discovers a plastic-wrapped Hello Kitty lunchbox containing a diary (disguised as À la recherche du temps perdu, an inscribed watch, and some old letters. ( no spoilers )
"I've always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide," she said. "That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it." [p. 314]
Some time after the Japanese tsunami, a Japanese-American writer named Ruth is walking along the beach near her home in British Columbia when she discovers a plastic-wrapped Hello Kitty lunchbox containing a diary (disguised as À la recherche du temps perdu, an inscribed watch, and some old letters. ( no spoilers )
