Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Spooky wells.
Wind-Up Bird Chronicle makes a little more sense in light of this:
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"The well is a very animistic thing. It is a hole to another world, to ghosts and spirits. A Japanese viewer sees that well and immediately understands that this will be a story about spirits."Peter Carey's friend Kenji, a Japanese architect, explaining My Neighbor Totoro, quoting on page 133 of Wrong About Japan: A Father's Journey With His Son
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