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Manish Chaudhari
Manish Chaudhari
Manish Chaudhari
Manish Chaudhari
Manish Chaudhari
Manish Chaudhari
On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
Manish Chaudhari
On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
- VENUE KHOJ Studios, New Delhi
- START DATE 31/08/2008 31-08-2008 01-01-1970 68 On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful... KHOJ Studios, New Delhi Organizer Organizer e-mail true DD/MM/YYYY
- PARTICIPANTS Manish Chaudhari
On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning
By Haruki Murakami
With: Manish Chaudhari, Designed and directed by Zuleikha Chaudhari
Excerpt
| On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning | ||
| One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo’s fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl. | ||
| Tell you the truth, she’s not that good-looking. She doesn’t stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn’t young, either – must be near thirty, not even close to a “girl,” properly speaking. But still, I know from fifty yards away: She’s the 100% perfect girl for me. The moment I see her, there’s a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert. | ||
| Maybe you have your own particular favorite type of girl – one with slim ankles, say, or big eyes, or graceful fingers, or you’re drawn for no good reason to girls who take their time with every meal. I have my own preferences, of course. Sometimes in a restaurant I’ll catch myself staring at the girl at the next table to mine because I like the shape of her nose. | ||
| But no one can insist that his 100% perfect girl correspond to some preconceived type. Much as I like noses, I can’t recall the shape of hers – or even if she had one. All I can remember for sure is that she was no great beauty. It’s weird.”Yesterday on the street I passed the 100% girl,” I tell someone.”Yeah?” he says. “Good-looking?” | ||
| “Not really.””Your favorite type, then?””I don’t know. I can’t seem to remember anything about her – the shape of her eyes or the size of her breasts.””Strange.”
“Yeah. Strange.” “So anyhow,” he says, already bored, “what did you do? Talk to her? Follow her?” |
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