村上春树_当我在跑步时我在想些什么_英文版.doc

Contents Title Page Foreword: Suffering Is Optional One: Who’s Going to Laugh at Mick Jagger? Two: Tips on Becoming a Running Novelist Three: Athens in Midsummer—Running 26.2 Miles for the First Time Four: Most of What I Know About Writing Fiction I Learned by Running Every Day Five: Even If I Had a Long Ponytail Back Then Six: Nobody Pounded the Table Anymore, Nobody Threw Their Cups Seven: Autumn in New York Eight: 18 Til I Die Nine: At Least He Never Walked Afterword: On Roads All Round the World Also by Haruki Murakami Copyright Foreword Suffering Is Optional There’s a wise saying that goes like this: A real gentleman never discusses women he’s broken up with or how much tax he’s paid. Actually, this is a total lie. I just made it up. Sorry! But if there really were such a saying, I think that one more condition for being a gentleman would be keeping quiet about what you do to stay healthy. A gentleman shouldn’t go on and on about what he does to stay fit. At least that’s how I see it. As everybody knows, I’m no gentleman, so maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about this to begin with, but still, I’m a little hesitant about writing this book. This might come off sounding like a dodge, but this is a book about running, not a treatise on how to be healthy. I’m not trying here to give advice like, “Okay everybody—let’s run every day to stay healthy!” Instead, this is a book in which I’ve gathered my thoughts about what running has meant to me as a person. Just a book in which I ponder various things and think out loud. Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn’t agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act. As a writer, then, and as a runner, I don’t find that writing and publishing a book of my own personal thoughts about running makes me stray too far off my usual path. Perhaps I’m just too painstaking a type of person, but I can’t grasp much of