Chapter 18 men's friendship

In Murakami's novels, apart from Kizuki, his boyhood partner, "I" is only left with the mouse, a man who can be called a friend.Murakami probably realized that friendship between men is indispensable, even if love is missing. Speaking of Friend Mouse, I have to talk about the continuity of Murakami's novels.I have never found any writer who has the same person's name, or at least a figure, appearing in his different works.Rats appear in at least four of Murakami's works.The appearance of works in different periods represents rats in different periods.It is this kind of continuity that makes readers look at the characters such as Mouse and Naoko with great interest, which can be called the ending, and at the same time pay attention to their lives.Of course, it is also this continuity that adds some familiar and friendly flavor to the novel itself.

Murakami presumably includes the name of the mouse in the "Festival Day dedicated to many birds" in the foreword and in the afterword for "friends who have passed away".As one of Murakami's dead friends, the mouse is repeatedly missed by the writer. This kind of nostalgia is enough to prove that Murakami has lost an important friend who can understand him but does not interfere with his own life. I've always believed that men's friendships in this world often feel and understand each other's thoughts and lives without words.I can't seem to explain the relationship between men, maybe the word friendship is too shallow.When two men become life-and-death friends, their blood must melt together, and they will give everything for each other, just like Haonan and Pheasant in "Young and Dangerous".But "everything" is only exchanged for a knowing smile, which may be very heavy, so a man's friendship has a certain dignity.Just like between "I" and the mouse.

The mouse in college often went to Jay's jazz bar with "me" and chatted while listening to jazz music, shelling peanuts and drinking beer.As Murakami said, "The mouse and I drank a huge amount of beer enough to fill a 25-meter swimming pool, and the peanut shells left covered all the floors of the jazz bar."Clearly, the two men were happy during this period. Well-to-do Rats often complain about life itself.And the topics of chatting with "I" are nothing more than trivial matters, and of course the novel will also be discussed.Mouse also writes novels, and his novels have two advantages in Murakami's opinion.One is that there is no sexual description, and the other is that no one died. "But people are going to die, and they have to sleep with women, nine times out of ten." When they didn't talk, the two just listened to the records played by the jukebox in silence.Sometimes, the rat will drop a coin into the jukebox and order a favorite song.

This similarity in character can easily lead to spiritual resonance. "I" and the mouse came together due to their own reasons, thus achieving a true friendship between the two men. In , Murakami wrote about the rat's love for the first time: "The situation of the rat is very bad. Maybe it's because of the approaching autumn, or maybe it's because of the girl. The rat doesn't say a word about it." "I" asked tentatively The result is unknown.Of course, Murakami will not forget to write about the love of rats (there is a detailed description of the love of rats in the book).However, the final result of love is that Shu left the university halfway, gently left behind his beloved lover, and quietly left the boring city.And what Murakami can do is to quietly watch the disappearance of this love.Because, without exception, the women that "I" loved disappeared or died.This is why "I" and the mouse fully understand each other.

Where did the rat go after leaving the city where it lived?It is described in Murakami.The writer did not hesitate to use a whole chapter (you must know that the fundamental reason why Murakami voted for the "Group Portrait Newcomer Award" review meeting is: there is a word limit.) Let readers know the reason why the mouse left and the living conditions of the mouse through the letter.As we all know, letter reflects the secret and true things in one's heart.Murakami expressed his friend's various thoughts through the medium of letter with the voice of a mouse. It is necessary to summarize the thoughts in the mouse letter:

One thought: Everyone is flawed.Can man survive with such a flaw?Of course.And that's where the problem ends up being. Thought 2: Maybe we (referring to the writer and myself) should have been born in Russia in the 19th century.What kind of earl, two duels, hunting, harboring metaphysical worries, drinking beer watching the sunset on the shore of the Black Sea.In his later years, he was exiled to Siberia because of being implicated in "something rebellion", and died there together.Had he been born in the nineteenth century, he would have written better novels. Idea 3: Three character orientations needed for a long-term wandering life: religious orientation, artistic orientation, and spiritual orientation.But I don't think either one is right for me.

Idea number four: Every girl has beautiful drawers full of almost worthless junk.I took out the rags one by one and dusted them off to find their corresponding value.Now I just think about sex.And if the interest is only focused on sexual intercourse, then there is no need to consider "worse or not". Murakami mentioned the mouse and sent his own novel at the same time, but "I" stuffed it into the desk drawer without even reading the name.Murakami said that he didn't know why he didn't want to watch it.For me, faith is enough.Indeed, the letter is enough, it's not that "I" doesn't want to read it for some reason, but that "I" understands rats like myself.Shu sent a check to "me" along with the letter, and reminded "don't forget to drink that beer for me".But the rat finally died together with the sheep that was the source of the evil.

After the sheep-hunting adventure, "I" came to Jie's Jazz Bar and told Jie that he and the mouse should be counted as joint operators with the money without dividends or interest, just adding their names.Presumably, Murakami used this behavior to commemorate the good memories of himself and his friend Mouse in Jay's jazz bar. The ending of the story is: "Out of Jie's bar, I walked along the river to the estuary. I sat down on the last remaining 50 meters of sandy beach and cried for two hours. Cry for two hours, I don't know where to go " Crying makes all Murakami's nostalgia for his friend Mouse exist in his own memory as a kind of reality.