Book Blog #4

"You sit on the edge of the world,
I am in the crater that's no more.
Worlds without letters
Standing in the shadow of the door.

The moon shines down on the sleeping lizard,
Little fish rain down from the sky.
Outside the window there are soldiers,
steeling themselves to die.

Kafka sits in a chair by the shore,
Thinking of the pendulum that moves the worlds, it seems,
When your heart is closed,
The shadow of the unmoving Sphinx,
Becomes a knife that pieces your dreams.

The drowning girl's fingers
Search for the entrance stone, and more.
Lifting the hem of her azure dress,
She gazes-
at Kafka on the shore (227-228)."

I suppose this song foreshadows the entire book. So far a few of these things have happened; fish falling from the sky, girls in azure dresses staring at paintings. But there is also a lot that seems random still. An unmoving Sphinx? A sleeping lizard? I'm still a very confused as to how this will all fit together in the end. My best guess is that the song is telling Kafka, the main character, that he sit on the edge of the world. Eventually Kafka will sit by the sea shore, thinking about how the world moves, who is mother and sister actually are, because they left him and his father when he was much younger. This song is written by a woman that works that the library that Kafka lives at, and Kafka believes her to be his mother. I can't tell whether or not this woman could be his mother, but there really is nothing that I can be sure of with this book. The authors best quality is his ability to make the reader second guess everything they may think about the book, and what may or may not happen.