MCA book club

Spent another enjoyable evening at the MCA for one of its "Inspired Reading" sessions. This time we looked at the art of Yayoi Kasuma in association with Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the shore. The art is a whole heap more engaging than the book.

The crowd was larger tonight; 25 in total (thanks to advertising in the SMH). It's a bit too large a group size for much of a conversation but I guess that's a problem of success. There were some Murakami fans there, which was a bit tedious: literary or cultural studies undergraduates who've recently learned what the word "trope" means and feel a need to display their understanding of its various uses over and over again. Britney must have the same kind of uncritical adulation. Hers scream and faint. Murakami's say trope a lot and look down disdainfully upon any one who isn't quite smart enough, they mistankenly believe, to recognise brilliance in anomie and detachment. Children. Thet'll learn.