Sep 2, 2009
True, luck may rule over parts of a person’s life and luck may cast patches of shadow across the ground of our being, but where there’s a will—much less a will strong enough to swim thirty laps or run twenty kilometers—there’s a way to overcome most any trouble. No, her heart was never set on marrying, is how I see it. Marriage just doesn’t fall within the sweep of her comet, at least not entirely.

Haruki Murakami, Lederhosen.

I like that phrase. From now on, when someone starts talking about something I don’t care about, I’m going to tell them it doesn’t fall within the sweep of my comet. I have a feeling this will lead to my quickly falling out of the sweep of their comet.

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