"You're wasting your life being involved with me... "You're wasting your life being involved with me "I'm not wasting
anything
"But I might never recoverWill you wait for me forever?
Can you wait 10 years, 20 years?"
"You're letting yourself be scared by too many things," I said"The
dark, bad dreams, the power of the deadYou have to forget themI'm
sure you'll get well if you do
"If I can," said Naoko, shaking her head
"If you can get out of this place, will you live with me?" I asked
"Then I can protect you from the dark and from bad dreamsThen
you'd have me instead of Reiko to hold you when things got difficult
Naoko pressed still more firmly against me"That would
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wonderful," she said
We got back to the cafe a little before threeReiko was reading a book
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and listening to Brahms' Second Piano Concerto on the radioThere
was something wonderful about Brahms playing at the edge of a
grassy meadow without a sign of anyone as far as the eye could see
Reiko was whistling along with the cello passage that begins the third
movement
"Backhaus and Bohm," she said"I wore this record out once, a long
time agoI wore the grooves out listening to every noteI
sucked the music right out of it
Naoko and I ordered coffee
"Do a lot of talking?" asked Reiko
"Tell me all about his, uh, you know, later
"We didn't
balenciaga london do any of that," said Naoko, reddening"Really?" Reiko
asked me"Nothing?" "Nothing," I said
"Bo-o-o-ring!" she said with a bored look on her face"True," I said,
sipping my coffee
The scene in the dining hall was the same as the day before - the
mood, the voices, the facesOnly the menu had changedThe balding
man in white, who yesterday had been talking about the secretion of
gastric juices under weightless conditions, joined the three of us at our
table and talked for a long time about the correlation of brain size to
intelligenceAs we ate our soybean burgers, we heard all about the
volume of Bismarck's brain and Napoleon'sHe
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and used a ballpoint pen and notepaper to draw sketches of brainsHe
would start to draw, declare "No, that's not quite it", and begin a new
oneThis happened several timesWhen he had finished, he carefully
put the remaining notepaper away in a pocket of his white jacket and
slipped the pen into his breast pocket, in which he kept a total of three
pens, along with pencils and a rulerHaving finished his meal, he
repeated what he had told me the day before, "The winters here are
really niceMake sure you come back when it's winter," and left the
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dining hall
"Is he a doctor or a patient?" I asked Reiko"Which do
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"I really can't tellIn either case, he doesn't seem all that normal
"He's a doctor," said Naoko
"Yeah," said Reiko, "but I bet he's the craziest one here "Mr Omura,
the gatekeeper, is pretty crazy, too," answered
Naoko
"True," said Reiko, nodding as she stabbed her broccoli"He does
these wild callisthenics every morning, screaming nonsense at the top
of his lungsAnd before you came, Naoko, there was a girl in the
business office, Miss Kinoshita, who tried to kill herselfAnd last year
they sacked a male nurse, Tokushima, who had a terrible drinking
problem
"Sounds like patients and staff should swap places," I
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