Kafka on the Shore

/ SIon | 子虚栈

Original link: https://blog.si-on.top/2023/kafuka/

Next time I read a book, I will definitely not write notes!

——Bing Yi’s “The Myth of Essentialism”

wedge

Today, I got up late, and it was already seven o’clock when I woke up. Counting the time spent on packing up necessary materials, washing, eating, and cycling, it would take about twenty or thirty minutes. In this way, it was impossible to find a seat at the 63-seat Zhuge Bookstore [1] , which opened at seven o’clock. Yesterday at 7:30, I was in the bookstore and clearly saw the disappointed expressions of a few students who came in resentfully and walked out helplessly. I don’t want luck to come, I don’t want to experience the embarrassment of seeking but falling into a jedi, let alone experience the emptiness caused by the exhaustion of passion. These are detrimental to the mind, and detrimental experiences are not an option in my life. So, I stayed in the rented house and started to collect my thoughts:

I finished reading “Kafka on the Shore” yesterday. I started reading this book by Haruki Murakami about ten days ago. At first, I just read it slowly, quietly watching the boy’s footprints away from home and Nakata’s strange experience. The first eight days were just taken out to read in the free time before and after eating and sleeping, and I spent about thirteen bowls of rice noodles ? 26.3% of the time read 26.3\% 26.3% . But if things go on like this, after the Slight Heat, the Great Heat, and even the Beginning of Autumn, you may not be able to finish reading. ? .

After lunch, I always feel sleepy doing the questions. The summary of the question types to be done before is always not smooth: the method feels abstract as soon as it is summed up, and the list of specific examples is very trivial, and it is always not as enthusiastic as it was at the beginning.

I copied the topic mechanically and thought. If you have ideas, do calculations and checks and write them in the summary; if you have no ideas, read the answers, do calculations, and copy them to your notes. When I saw this derivation formula and couldn’t understand it, I became more and more sleepy:

lim⁡x→0+[ln⁡(1+e2x)ln⁡(1+e1x)+a[x]=lim⁡x→0+2x+ln⁡(1+e−2x)1x+ln⁡(1+e−1x)+0\lim_{ x\to{0^+}}[\frac{\ln (1+e^{\frac{2}{x} })}{\ln (1+e^{\frac{1}{x}})}+a[x]=\lim_{ x\to{0^+}}\frac{\color{red}\frac{2}{x}+\ln (1+e^{-\frac{2}{x}})}{\color{red}\frac{1}{x}+\ln (1+e^{-\frac {1}{x}})}+0 x → 0 + lim [ ln ( 1 + e x 1 ) ln ( 1 + e x 2 ) + a [ x ] = x → 0 + lim x 1 + l n ( 1 + e − x 1 ) x 2 + l n ( 1 + e − x 2 ) + 0

It can be understood that the latter tends to zero, but why does 2x\frac{2}{x} appear in the front x 2 ?Both up and down tend to +∞+\infty + ∞ , is this the numerator and denominator L’Hopidas? No, it won’t come out after Los Angeles ln⁡(1+e−2x)\color{blue}\ln (1+e^{-\frac{2}{x}}) l n ( 1 + e − x 2 ) ah! What the hell is going on? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

Forget it, forget it, go back and find an online class to take a look, and look at other things first. no! What the hell is going on? How can we come up with a 2x\frac{2}{x} halfway x 2 ? This is tending to infinity, how can you be so nonsense! Have no idea! Have no idea!

Analysis of the second day

When I wrote this passage, I did the calculation again. In fact, this is just an equivalent code.

ln⁡(1+e2x)=ln⁡(e0+e2x)=ln⁡[e2x×(e0−2x+e2x−2x)]=2x+ln⁡(1+e−2x) \begin{aligned}&\ln (1+e^{\frac{2}{x}})\\ =&\ln (e^0+e^{\frac{2} {x}})\\=&\ln [e^{\frac{2}{x}}\times(e^{0-\frac{2}{x}}+e^{\frac{2}{x}-\frac{2}{x}})]\\=&\frac{2}{x}+\ln (1+e^{-\frac{2}{x}}) \end{aligned} = = = ln ( 1 + e x 2 ) ln ( e 0 + e x 2 ) ln [ e x 2 x ( e 0 − x 2 + e x 2 − x 2 )]x 2 + ln ( 1 + e − x 2 )

… (Huh playing on the draft paper)

…(Handwriting gradually scribbled, Molecule copied for about ten seconds, and began to weave ink balls)

…

Ah, so tired, so sleepy, I can’t do it anymore

Can’t! Can’t! In order to avoid the ugly appearance of being sleepy from being seen by the people around, especially the girl on the opposite side who seems to be studying hard, let’s continue to read “Kafka on the Shore”.

Then for the rest of the afternoon, I picked up the Nokia, turned pages and copied sentences, from twelve to five (with two sleepy breaks in the middle), and finally finished the book. After reading, I put down my phone and pen, walked out of the study room, and dangled in the sparse drizzle. I wanted to think about something, but my thoughts were too messy to condense into ideas, so I went around the library and returned to the bookstore as if I lost my soul.

Today, I can think more rationally, and now I am transcribing and annotating the interesting ideas in the book

classical music

Hoshino (an enthusiastic young truck driver): “Then I would like to ask: Do you think music has the power to change a person? For example, what in yourself will suddenly change because of the music you hear at a certain time?”

Oshima (librarian): “Of course, what we realize, what changes in us, is like a chemical effect. After we check ourselves, we know that all the scales in it have gone up a step, and our realm has expanded by a round. I also feel this way. It happens only once in a while, just like falling in love.”

——Chapter 40 “Kafka on the Shore”

Classical Music, classical music, Yangchun Baixue. If you really want to understand them thoroughly, you must combine the experience of the composer and understand enough knowledge of music theory.

Although I have learned some music theory and probably know what staves and chords are, I am still far behind in appreciating symphony. Our family’s music preference is mostly rhythm control. On the one hand, it sounds good, and on the other hand, it is easy to whistle [2] . In addition, “blow” instruments such as flute, oboe, and suona are easier to whistle.

Far away, here is a list of classical music that appears in the book (the pop music the protagonist listens to is from the 1980s and 1990s, and now it sounds a bit retro, so I won’t list it here):

  1. Schubert Sonata in D Major: Quality Dense Imperfection [3]
  2. Mozart’s Post Serenade: Bright and Elegant Flow
  3. Beethoven Archduke Trio [4] : Calm and intimate familiarity
  4. Haydn Concerto No. 1 [5] : mellow, solid, warm-blooded, calm and encouraging

The first two songs were listened to by Oshima Drag Racing, which are more elegant, and the last two songs were listened to by Hoshino in a coffee shop, which are more heavy. But whether it is that meaning, that feeling, you still need to hear it yourself.

In addition, our family also has two pieces of classical music that we often listen to recently:

  1. Tchaikovsky: Overture to 1812, Nutcracker, Symphony No. 6, Cantabile Andante (this song is most suitable for walking at night when it is raining),
  2. The Second Waltz, Op. 99a (bleak and rhythmic, suitable for whistling)
  3. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Act III

Kafka on the Shore playlist

In fact, I originally wanted to organize it myself, but found that someone had already done this ╰( °▽° )╯, so I moved it here directly, thanks to @17carl

Here are some good sentences from the book:

outstanding

  • As far as experience is concerned, when people strongly pursue something, that thing will basically not come; but when you try to avoid it, it will naturally find it. Of course this is just generalization.

This point of view is also reflected everywhere in “The Fantastic Journey of the Shepherd Boy”. I just think it is amazing, and our family seems to have never really experienced it.

  • Isn’t it… If you think that is easy to understand, then you think so. It doesn’t matter what, does it all.

  • In this world, things that are not monotonous make people tire quickly, and things that are not boring are mostly monotonous.

Passion is just the beginning, monotony is the substance.

  • There is room for monotony in my life, but no room for boredom. And most people can’t tell the difference between the two.
  • They filled the unimaginative parts with straw to fill the empty parts, while they walked on the ground unconsciously, trying to impose that numbness by listing empty words. (Oshima’s biting satire on superficial feminists)
  • Unimaginative narrowness, harsh, self-righteous propositions, empty jargon, usurped ideals, rigid systems of thought—these are the things that are really scary to me.
  • What is right and what is not right – this is of course a very important question. However, this kind of individual judgment error is not impossible to correct afterwards in many cases. As long as you have the courage to take the initiative to admit your mistakes, you can usually recover them. However, the narrowness and harshness that lacks imagination are no different from parasites. They change the subjects on which they live, change their own shape and multiply infinitely. There is no hope of salvation here.
  • “I like people who are different.” The driver said, “In this world, you can’t trust a guy who looks decent and lives like a real person.”
  • No matter who it is, as long as he lives like this, there will naturally be meaning between him and everything around him. The most important thing is whether it is natural. It’s not the same thing as having a good brain, but whether you’re seeing with your own eyes—very simple.
  • What I imagine is probably very important in this world.
  • Even if your choices and efforts are doomed to futility, you are still absolutely you and nothing else. You are moving forward as yourself, no doubt about it. no need to worry.
  • It may be happier to get the symbols of freedom than to get freedom itself.
  • What is outside of you is a projection of what is inside of you, and what is within you is a projection of what is outside of you. So, by stepping again and again into the maze outside of you, you are wading into the maze set within yourself, which in most cases is very dangerous.
  • Gradually, I feel that this is not a bad idea.

  • When you are in the forest you are a part of the forest; when you are in the rain you are a part of the rain; when you are in the morning you are a part of the morning; when you are in my presence you are a part of me.

  • Writing is an important thing. But what is written, the form that appears after writing has no meaning.

  1. The characteristic buildings in Nanyang City are similar to a miniature library or a miniature study room, with several cabinets of books and fifty or sixty seats inside. ↩ ︎

  2. “I whistle to fill the silence. – Tamura Kafka” ↩ ︎

  3. “Music that challenges and defeats the state of being of all things, this is the essence of romanticism. – Oshima” ↩ ︎

  4. The performance version is the trio of Rubinstein, Heifetz and Freeman. “Known as the ‘Million Dollar Trio.'” ↩ ︎

  5. Pierre Fournier plays ↩ ︎

This article is transferred from: https://blog.si-on.top/2023/kafuka/
This site is only for collection, and the copyright belongs to the original author.