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jazzy_daveGenki Kawamura "If Cats Disappeared From The World" (Picador)
What would you do if you suddenly were told by your doctor that you were going to die soon, very soon? You have spent most of your adult life delivering mail in a small town in Japan, when out of the blue, or more likely, out of the darkness you are told that you will soon be dead. Many of us would be devastated and likely to faint, pardon the expression, dead away as our postman does.
After regaining consciousness, we might try to think up a bucket list of things that we want to do before the end. But what if you awoke to see a stranger in your house. A stranger who looked just like you. Well maybe not just like you, because you would never be caught, here it comes again, dead in a loud, brightly colored Hawaiian shirt that could light up the darkest night. To top it off this neon copy of you tells you he is the Devil and he might just have a plan to keep you from dying. Well at least from dying today. It seems if you are willing to exchange one extra day of your life for making one thing in the world disappear forever, you can make it through another day. Seems like a no-brainer. An extra day of life to cross out some meaningless thing from the world as though it never existed. There must be hundreds, no thousands of things in this world that we could do without. Oh, I forgot to mention, the Devil gets to decide what goes. You just have to agree. It starts simple enough. What would a world be without chocolate? A lot thinner perhaps? A bit less tasty? Surely not a bad choice for another day of life? Then where’s the harm in a world without movies, or phones, or clocks? These are all inanimate objects, but what about a world without, say, cats? Where do you draw the line? Our postman learns a lot about the value of his life and what matters in this world of ours. A very thought-provoking tale told in a light easy to digest manner.
What would you do if you suddenly were told by your doctor that you were going to die soon, very soon? You have spent most of your adult life delivering mail in a small town in Japan, when out of the blue, or more likely, out of the darkness you are told that you will soon be dead. Many of us would be devastated and likely to faint, pardon the expression, dead away as our postman does.
After regaining consciousness, we might try to think up a bucket list of things that we want to do before the end. But what if you awoke to see a stranger in your house. A stranger who looked just like you. Well maybe not just like you, because you would never be caught, here it comes again, dead in a loud, brightly colored Hawaiian shirt that could light up the darkest night. To top it off this neon copy of you tells you he is the Devil and he might just have a plan to keep you from dying. Well at least from dying today. It seems if you are willing to exchange one extra day of your life for making one thing in the world disappear forever, you can make it through another day. Seems like a no-brainer. An extra day of life to cross out some meaningless thing from the world as though it never existed. There must be hundreds, no thousands of things in this world that we could do without. Oh, I forgot to mention, the Devil gets to decide what goes. You just have to agree. It starts simple enough. What would a world be without chocolate? A lot thinner perhaps? A bit less tasty? Surely not a bad choice for another day of life? Then where’s the harm in a world without movies, or phones, or clocks? These are all inanimate objects, but what about a world without, say, cats? Where do you draw the line? Our postman learns a lot about the value of his life and what matters in this world of ours. A very thought-provoking tale told in a light easy to digest manner.
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