/lit/ - Literature

>>19534615
That's how I read it, he's aloof and honest. She liked that he wasn't posturing or bragging and is in fact a brooding loner, which is consequentially pretty hot in the short term. I don't pretend to know what women like, but taming the wild and mysterious beast is up there as far as fantasies go. It's been a long time since I read Norwegian Wood, but I read it as the story and outcome of a few short term fantasies taken to their conclusion. That HST line about the 60s being the high water mark came to mind. I didn't really get it until I examined the absurdity and nuance of his earlier works.