今日の英語学習

• Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words 40〜61ページまで。丁寧に精読していますが、作品についての解説は（日本語で元の作品を読んでることだし）ほどほどの理解度で行こうかと。

Discipline. Concentration. When Murakami makes up his mind to do something, he does it. Once, cross-country skiing in New Hampshire, he lost his balance going down a small incline and went face-first into an icy snowdrift. His companion, equally inexperienced at the spot, had the good sense to take off his own skis and walk downhill, where he hound Murakami slightly dazed and with a bloodied lip. After a few dabs with an alcohol swab, Murakami trudged uphill and tried again-and again-and again, until he got it right. It was an impressive display of determination. P40

やる、と決めたら何としてもやるんです。determination.　一歩間違えると頑固？

All I could think about when I began writing fiction in my youth was how to run as far as I could from the "Japanese Condition" .I wanted to distance myself as much as possible from the curse of Japanese....P47

その気持ちはわかる。それにしても、"the curse of Japanese"、かぁ。

As I have aged, though, and have begun to feel at home with my own kind of accomodated Japanese style as a result of my struggles with the language, and as the years have mounted up in which I have lived away from Japan, I have come more and more to like the act of writing fiction in the Japanese language. I'm actually fond of Japanese now: I need it. P.232

しかし、のちに、こう書いています。アメリカに住んでからのことです。