{"id":759,"date":"2024-08-07T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/?p=759"},"modified":"2024-12-09T14:25:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T14:25:17","slug":"south-of-the-border-west-of-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/reads\/south-of-the-border-west-of-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"South of the Border, West of the Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Excerpts from the book of\u00a0<em><em>Haruki Murakami<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I detested the term only child. Every time I heard it I felt something was missing from me\u2014like I wasn\u2019t quite a complete human being. The phrase only child stood there, pointing an accusatory finger at me. \u201cSomething\u2019s not quite all there, pal,\u201d it told me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the world I lived in, it was an accepted idea that only children were spoiled by their parents, weak, and self-centered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The closest comparison might be the power of perfume. Perhaps even the master blender himself can\u2019t explain how a fragrance that has a special power is created. Science sure can\u2019t explain it. Still, the fact remains that a certain combination of fragrances can captivate the opposite sex like the scent of an animal in heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>If my actions had been proper, after all, why the need for deception?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#fcb900\" class=\"has-inline-color\">\u201cFor a while is a phrase whose length can\u2019t be measured. At least by the person who\u2019s waiting,\u201d I said. And probably is a word whose weight is incalculable.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSometimes when I look at you, I feel I\u2019m gazing at a distant star,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn\u2019t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don\u2019t know it is raining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from the book of\u00a0Haruki Murakami I detested the term only child. Every time I heard it I felt something was missing from me\u2014like I wasn\u2019t quite a complete human being. The phrase only child stood there, pointing an accusatory finger at me. \u201cSomething\u2019s not quite all there, pal,\u201d it told me In the world &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reads"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["tl","en","nl"],"languages":{"tl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"nl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onemiguel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}