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Every day i go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. at that moment, i have to open the door. it's a big, heavy door. you have to go into the other room. metaphorically, of course. and you have to come back to this side of the room. and you have to shut the door.

-Haruki Murakami

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Every Day I Go To My Study

Haruki Murakami

Every day i go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. at that moment, i have to open the door. it's a big, heavy door. you have to go into the other room. metaphorically, of course. and you have to come back to this side of the room. and you have to shut the door.

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Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. it would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. also, it helps to abandon hope. if i sit at my computer, determined to write a new yorker story i won't get beyond the first sentence. it's better to put no pressure on it. what would happen if i followed the previous sentence with this one, i'll think. if the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. at least if you're writing humor.

My life is routine. i wake up early in the morning. i brush my teeth. i sit on the floor of the cell i do not go to breakfast. i stare at a gray cement wall. i keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. i take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and i try not to move. i sit for as long as i can i sit until everything hurts i sit until everything stops hurting i sit until i lose myself in the gray wall i sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. i sit and i stare and i breathe. i sit and i stare. i breathe.

You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. this is how you train your unconscious to kick in for you creatively. ... you put a piece of paper in the typewriter, or you turn on your computer and bring up the right file. ... you begin rocking, just a little at first, and then like a huge autistic child. ... then your mental illnesses arrive at the desk like your sickest, most secretive relatives. and they pull up chairs in a semicircle around the computer, and they try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath, leering at you behind your back.

Every time you turn on your new car, you're turning on 20 microprocessors. every time you use an atm, you're using a computer. every time i use a settop box or game machine, i'm using a computer. the only computer you don't know how to work is your microsoft computer, right?

When god gives you a door, if you want access, you go through that door. people didn't like jesus. oh, they had all kind of reasons to hate him but jesus said, "i am the door. any man who enters must come by me. if you don't come by me," he said, "you're a thief and a robber." well, if omarosa manigault is the door to donald trump, well i kind of like that door. that's a pretty door. that's an intelligent door. that's a spiritually rooted door.

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, weekend update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

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