Collection#2 - Haruki Murakami "Birthday Girl"
Collection#1 - Haruki Murakami "Kino"
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| "The man always sat in the same seat, the stool farthest down the counter. When it wasn’t occupied, that is, but it was nearly always free." | ||
| "Kino remembered the first time the man had come to his bar. His appearance had immediately caught Kino’s eye—the bluish shaved head, the thin build yet broad shoulders, the keen glint in his eye, the prominent cheekbones and wide forehead." | ||
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| "The man began coming regularly to Kino’s bar. Once, at most twice, a week. He would invariably have a beer first, then a whiskey. Sometimes he would study the day’s menu on the blackboard and order a light meal." | ||
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| "Kino didn’t know the man’s name. He was just a regular customer who came to the bar, enjoyed a beer and a whiskey, read silently, paid in cash, then left. He never bothered anybody else. What more did Kino need to know about him?" | ||
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Collection#2 - Haruki Murakami "Birthday Girl"
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| "She waited on tables as usual that day, her twentieth birthday. She always worked on Fridays, but if things had gone according to plan that particular Friday, she would have had the night off." | ||
| "The other part-time girl had agreed to switch shifts with her as a matter of course: being screamed at by an angry chef while lugging pumpkin gnocchi and seafood fritto to customers’ tables was not a normal way to spend one’s twentieth birthday. " | ||
| "She found herself trying to comfort the sick girl, who had called to apologize. 'Don’t worry about it,' she said. 'I wasn’t going to do anything special anyway, even if it is my twentieth birthday.'” | ||
| "Her workplace was one of the better-known Italian restaurants in the tony Roppongi district of Tokyo." | ||
| "She and the other part time waitress were students who took turns working three clays each. In addition there was one floor manager and, at the register, a skinny middle-aged woman who supposedly had been there since the restaurant opened–literally sitting in the one place, it seemed, like some gloomy old character from Little Dorrit." | ||
| "The manager always wore a black suit, white shirt, and bow tie–not a snap-on bow tie but the real thing, tied by hand. It was a point of pride for him that he could tie it perfectly without looking in the mirror." | ||
| " 'The owner had his own room on the sixth floor of the same building where the restaurant was', she said.'He never, ever showed his face in the restaurant, though. The only one who saw him was the manager. It was strictly his job to deliver the owner’s dinner to him. None of the other employees knew what he looked like.' " | ||
| " Work started out as usual on her twentieth birthday, November 17. It had been raining on and off since the afternoon, and pouring since early evening. At five o’clock the manager gathered the employees together to explain the day’s specials. " | ||
| "It was after seven-thirty when the manager started feeling sick. He stumbled over to a chair and sat there for a while pressing his stomach, as if he had suddenly been shot. A greasy sweat clung to his forehead. 'I think I’d better go to the hospital,' he muttered." | ||
| "Before ducking into the cab, the manager said to her hoarsely, 'I want you to take a dinner up to room 604 at eight o’clock. All you have to do is ring the bell, say, ‘Your dinner is here,’ and leave it.' 'That’s room 604, right?' she said. 'At eight o’clock,' he repeated. 'On the dot.' He grimaced again, climbed in, and the taxi took him away" |
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Collection#3 - Ernest Hemingway "In another country"
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| "In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it any more. It was cold in the fall in Milan and the dark came very early." | ||
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| "The doctor went to his office in a back room and brought a photograph which showed a hand that had been withered almost as small as the major's, before it had taken a machine course, and after was a little larger. The major held the photograph with his good hand and looked at it very carefully" | ||
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| "The boys at first were very polite about my medals and asked me what I had done to get them. I showed them the papers, which were written in very beautiful language and full of fratellanza and abnegazione, but which really said, with the adjectives removed, that I had been given the medals because I was an American." |