09/10/2003 - 2:55 p.m. | but i want you... and you me, too

"I watched you coming back from the kitchen just now," I said.
"Did I pass?"
"You've got great legs."
"You like them?"
"A whole lot."
She put her glass down on the table and kissed me below the ear.
"Did I ever tell you?" she said. "I love compliments."

Murakami is a genius. I don't know how the above quote proves it, but stuff like that is what really gets me. The insane tangents and yet the attention paid to the smallest details. I wish I could be like that.