Spirited away by music
Sep 10, 2019
3 minutes
BY JIM AUSTIN
THERE ARE AS MANY OPINIONS AS THERE ARE EXPERTS
THIS ISSUE: “Ghosts are always hungry.”
—RAYMOND DE LOY JAMESON
Yup, you’re in a strange position, all right. You’re in love with a girl who is no more.
—HARUKI MURAKAMI
The quote above, from Haruki Murakami’s novel , is addressed to Kafka, a 15-year-old boy who has fallen in love with the teenage ghost of an older woman. The woman is still alive, but ever since the death of her lover many years before, she has existed separate from
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