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Saturday, March 03, 2018

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good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste
“The writing itself is no big thing. I mean I like writing. It’s even relaxing for me. But the content is a real zero. Pointless in fact.”
[...]
“So what choice have you got?” she said.
“I don't know. The way I see it, it’s like shoveling snow. You do it because somebody’s got to, not because it's fun.”
“Shoveling snow, huh?” she mused.
“Well, you know, cultural snow,” I said.
—from Dance Dance Dance, by Haruki Murakami (translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
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