May 1, 2016 Log No. 612
Murakami Character: How To
Protagonist:
- Whiskey
- Records: jazz, classical
- Old westerns
- Cooks: pasta, side dishes
- Creative type job or no job
- Passive
- Not many friends/family
- Not overly social
- Yet undefinable sex appeal to females in his vicinity
Women:
- Nice ears
- White skin
- Pure appearance
- Yet pretty sexually forward
- But usually not pressing for a relationship
- Always, always on a pedestal
(Not that I don’t like his books; they have a certain special melancholy. But it can get hard to tell his characters apart from book to book.)