November 4, 2007 - 1 Comments

"'Sounds good: simple and practical. Mind if I write it down in my notebook?'

'Of course not. But you mean to say you can't remember that much?'

'Nah, I'm like a chicken: three steps, and my mind's a blank. So I write everything down. I heard Einstein used to do that.'

'Oh sure, Einstein.'

'I don't mind being forgetful, he said, 'It's actually forgetting stuff that I don't like.'"

-- Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, 2006