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A lot of people seem to think that I am only majoring in English because I don't want to grow up to be a (semi-)honest woman dressed in white and helping the sickly. While this is partially true, I must admit that I do actually bear some like toward English.
In fact, I like English almost as much as I like lying and being in altered states of consciousness. After all, what other department would support your study of apathetic bastards who do nothing other than sleep, drink, travel, steal, lie, and occassionally write a groundbreaking novel? It's not library studies if that's what you were thinking, though, you were quite close.
In all actuality, I decided to major in English when, one day, I closed my eyes and thought, "If I could be writing a thesis right now, what would I write it on?"
And the answer came back overwhelmingly as: Haruki Murakami, Japanese postmodernism, and how otaku culture influenced the subway terrorist gassing attacks.
Duh.
I think that, thanks to Murakami and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, we can all orgasm a little easier knowing that some people are willing to pay extravagant amounts of money just have to have one in an old fashion warehouse somewhere in the outskirts of Tokyo. |
