"that's why i like listening to schubert while i'm driving. like i said, it's because all the performances are imperfect. a dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. if i listen to some utterly perfect performance of some utterly perfect piece while i'm driving, i might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. but listening to the d major, i can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. and personally, i find that encouraging. do you know what i'm getting at?"
haruki murakami, kafka on the shore
haruki murakami, kafka on the shore
