“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.” A short story by Haruki Murakami, from 2005.
Born in heat, the strands of spaghetti washed down the river of 1971 and vanished.I was sprawled out on the tatami, staring at the ceiling. A pool of winter sunlight had formed in the place where I lay. Like a dead fly I lay there, vacant, in a December spotlight.
On the other end was a girl, a girl so indistinct that, by four-thirty, she might very well have disappeared altogether. She was the ex-girlfriend of a friend of mine. Something had brought them together, this guy and this indistinct girl, and something had led them to break up. I had, I admit, reluctantly played a role in getting them together in the first place.I looked at the phone, running my eyes along the length of the cord. The cord was, sure enough, attached to the phone.
I went ahead and filled an imaginary pot with imaginary water, lit an imaginary stove with an imaginary match.I sprinkled imaginary salt into the boiling water, gently lowered a handful of imaginary spaghetti into the imaginary pot, set the imaginary kitchen timer for eight minutes.“I’m really sorry, but cooking spaghetti is a delicate operation.”“So could you call me back?” I added hurriedly.
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