Friday, January 20, 2012

On The Street, Tokyo... Isoda

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective
- Natsume Sōseki



I started doing all this after using streetstyle photographs of people to make characters for short stories from. And I keep thinking I'll do that again at some point. In fact, I definitely will, it's on the cards.

And I still see something of a character in people. Like Isoda, for example. I don't have a specific character for him exactly, except that I feel he'd fit very well into either a Kōbō Abe or a Haruki Murakami novel, maybe as an off-beat detective, someone who you bump into in the back alleys or upon turning a corner at night, and who your meeting with is absolute key to being able to move forward.
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