Word: cats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with what seems to be an attitude of complaint about the unfair hardships of adolescence. The main character, Hajime, is a young man growing up in a "small, quiet town" in Japan. He lives a normal life in a neighborhood where all the houses match and everyone has a cat or a dog. But he's different--he's an only child in a world of big families, and that means, of course, that he, like all children, must deal with some degree of ostracization. At the novel's beginning, it seems that this is going to be the focus...
...worried about boys and chem and parties and sleep, not giving a second thought to my father who was struggling to maintain "normalcy" at the hospital and in his research lab. In familiar ABP, I felt sick. My parents couldn't even tell me about the bone scans and CAT scans because the wanted me to be happy...
...worried about boys and chem and parties and sleep, not giving a second thought to my father who was struggling to maintain "normalcy" at the hospital and in his research lab. In familiar ABP, I felt sick. My parents couldn't even tell me about the bone scans and CAT scans because the wanted me to be happy...
...thrive, multiply and compete within our minds. When we announce to the world a good idea, who knows what subconscious quasi-Darwinian selection has gone on behind the scenes inside our heads? Our minds are invaded by memes, as ancient bacteria invaded our ancestors' cells and became mitochondria. Cheshire Cat-like, memes merge into our minds, even become our minds...
...course there is a place in the world for fashion and gossip magazines. I'm not trying to take the moral high-ground; I'm just surprised--shocked even--that the editor of a magazine that ran articles like "This Cat Has Nine Wives" and "How Gangs and Sororities are the Same" is now the force behind articles on professional groupie Pamela Des Barres and damaged-but-still-insufferable Natalie Imbruglia. And there's a whole new generation of 14-year-olds who hate high school and probably Imbruglia and long for something real to hang...