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“A parte l'anima, non possiedo nulla.”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84”.
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“A parte l'anima, non possiedo nulla.”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84”.
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I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (p. 546)
[grammar] うちに入らない
Upon reading Murakami’s 1Q84, I came across the following sentence:
鍵はかかっていたが、鍵のうちには入らないようなものだった。
I couldn’t make sense of the second part of the sentence, so I asked my Japanese friend for help.
Apparently, Nのうちに入らない means something like “can’t be regarded as N” or “not really a N”. So, you might translate the sentence as, “It was locked, but it wasn’t much of a lock.”
This phrase seems to be more often used with verbs, as in Vたうちに入らない, rather than with nouns.
My friend also mentioned that Japanese teachers often use this phrase when students haven’t done something properly, e.g., cleaning the classroom:
こんなのやったうちに入らないだろ！ You can’t seriously think this counts as cleaning, right?!
When I thanked my friend for the help, he replied with:
こんなの助けたうちにも入らねーぜ。 This doesn’t even count as helpin’, man.
After some further research, I discovered that this is actually considered an N1-level grammar point.
Has anyone else encountered this phrase before? If so, let me know the context in which you’ve seen it!
If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“I am nothing. I'm like someone who's been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
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a thing that’s good for your brain: read books you don’t like actually. it’s good for practicing critical thinking to have to parse through something you don’t agree with, and you often come out of it with a more nuanced view of the matter than if you were just reading a book you liked. it’s good to think about what you don’t like about it and why and how that aligns with your values. if you’re wondering why i’m saying this, this is what i’m telling myself as i’m 100 pages from the end of 1q84 and i do not like this story but by the time i realized that i was in too deep to quit so i’ve been powering through regardless. it does feel good to exercise my brain but im so ready to be done with this piece of shit
― 1Q84, Haruki Murakami
[text ID: I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.]
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Life is not like water. Things in life don’t necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.
Haruki Murakami / 1Q84