Ghostwritten (1999)
“The commuters streamed to work with their collars and umbrellas up. The cherry trees lining the backstreets were still winter trees, craggy, pocked, and dripping with morning rain. I fished around for my keys, rattled up the shutters, and opened the shop.
I looked through the post while the water was boiling. Some mail orders—good. Bills, bills—bad. A couple of inquiries from a regular customer in Nagano about rare discs that I’d never heard of. Bumf. An entirely ordinary morning. Time for oolo...ng tea. I put on a very rare Miles Davis recording that Takeshi had discovered in a box of mixed-quality discs that he’d picked up at an auction last month out in Shinagawa.
It was a gem. “You Never Entered My Mind” was blissful and forlorn. Some faultless mute-work, the trumpet filtered down to a single ray of sound. The brassy sun lost behind the clouds.
The first customer of the week was a foreigner, either American or European or Australian, you can never tell because they all look the same.MoreLess
I looked through the post while the water was boiling. Some mail orders—good. Bills, bills—bad. A couple of inquiries from a regular customer in Nagano about rare discs that I’d never heard of. Bumf. An entirely ordinary morning. Time for oolo...ng tea. I put on a very rare Miles Davis recording that Takeshi had discovered in a box of mixed-quality discs that he’d picked up at an auction last month out in Shinagawa.
It was a gem. “You Never Entered My Mind” was blissful and forlorn. Some faultless mute-work, the trumpet filtered down to a single ray of sound. The brassy sun lost behind the clouds.
The first customer of the week was a foreigner, either American or European or Australian, you can never tell because they all look the same.MoreLess
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