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Oh @stephenfry I see no reason why…

Doesn’t he look chuffed?

(Taken with Instagram at Barnes & Noble)

I knew she could, and I knew I loved. End of story.

Come back and guide me, DFW.

(scene from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 2009. Adapted for the screen and directed by John Krasinski. Based on the collection of short stories of the same name, by David Foster Wallace)

And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we’d be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

- Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami)

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the Earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven’s Sonata no. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus’s unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard. What a delightful vibrant, and joyous thing it was!”

- Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

(Music: Beethoven no. 32 Opus 111 - Wilhelm Backhaus)