Saturday, 13 November 2021

"On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning" by Haruki Murakami

 



Only Haruki Murakami has the balls to write titles that are, relatively speaking, longer than their main stories. The five-page-long story of On Seeing the 100% Girl... is a plotless one, but not without heart or meaning. In fact, it's soulful and quite heartbreaking... but also realistic in a world governed by chances and randomness.

It's about a boy who met the 100% girl for him one day and how he failed to make up a line that will attract her. So he indulges himself in the most fantastical perfect line in the history of all pick-up lines ever.



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