Norwegian wood - Haruki Murakami 挪威森林 村上春樹

"It's a rule," said Naoko."When I request 'Norwegian Wood', I have to put a 100 into the band. It's my favourite, ..."

"Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it," she said, raising her eyes to mine. " The pain of growing up. We didn't pay when we should have, so now the bills are due. Which is why Kizuki did what he did, and why I'm her...." p155 Ch 6

I'm a far more flawed human being than you realize p.176 Ch 6

"What makes us most normal", said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal"

life is a box of chocolates(cookies).... you eat all the ones your like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much  p 300

"Great enough to knock down all the trees in all the forests of the world" p.310
"Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter" p.317

"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life" p.327

"Letters are just pieces of paper", I said, "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish" p 349

the silence of all the misty rain in the world falling on all the new-mown lawns of the world p.350

Euripides" Question Everything, Learn Something, Answer Nothing"

Songs, music and musicians in the book
Dear Heart - Henry Mancini ***

The Beatles:
Norwegian Wood
Yesterday
Michelle
Something
Here Comes the Sun
The Fool on the Hill
Penny Lane
Blackbird
Julia
When I'm 64
Nowhere Man
And I love her
Hey Jude
Up on the Roof 

Sgt Peppers' Lonely Hearts Club Band

Pavane for a dead queen - Ravel (Pavane pour une infante défunte)
Claire de Lune - Debussy

- Bacharach
Close to You
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Walk on by

Wedding bell blues
- Rogers and Hart
- Gershwin
- Bob Dylan
- Ray Charles
- Carole King
- The Beach Boys
- Stevie Wonder
Sukiyaki Song - Kyu Sakamoto
Blue Velvet
Green Fields
Eleanor Rigby


Waltz for Debbie - Bill Evans
BRAHMS Symphony no. 4: 3rd movement

Seven Daffodils
Lemon Tree
Puff(The Magic Dragon)
Five Hundred Miles
Where have all the flowers gone
Michael, Row the boat ashore

Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat and Tears
White Room - Cream
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
Proud Mary
Bach Fugue
Bach Invention
 - Bud Powell
Honeysuckle Rose - Thelonious Monk

Second Piano Concerto - Brahms
- Backhaus and Bohm
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Rolling Stones
- Tony Bennett
- Ornette Coleman

incomplete playlist on youtube :

music from Murakami's other novels 

Brahms Ballade ,Op 10, No 1,  D minor

GRIEG Peer Gynt Suite: Morning
GRIEG    Peer Gynt Suite: In the Hall of the Mountain King

HAYDN    Cello Concerto in C: 2nd movement

HAYDN Cello Concerto in D: 2nd movement ?
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
TCHAIKOVSKY Serenade for Strings: 4th movement (Finale)
ROSSINI La gazza Ladra Overture
JANÁČEK    Sinfonietta: 1st movement

Schubert Piano Trio No 2,

Schubert: violoncello, D. 929, E-flat major, mvt I

Poulenc: Melancolie FP 105

Poulec: Le bal masque, FP60: Intermede, Bagatelle

Wagner/Horvath: Der Ring des Nibelugen: Fantasy for horn and piano

《魔山》（原名：Der Zauberberg），是德國作家托瑪斯‧曼的經典名著

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