Dear reader. If you ever need an alibi, and it was a mess in the house you would like to explain the scandalous behavior of a dog (preferably a neighbor's dog, as the wife hates it), for complete assurance you will need an important element: the dog smell. If you do not know how to get it, Uncle Good Council Ishiguro certainly help you. Just look at his story Come Rain or Come Shine. Secret recipe prepared as follows:
Are you ready? Average pan. Probably standing on the stove. Pour her a glass of water. Add two cubes, a teaspoon of cumin, a teaspoon of paprika, two tablespoons of vinegar, a handful of bay leaves. You have saved? Now put in a slipper or shoe leather, soles up, so they do not submerge in liquid. To avoid the stench of burning rubber. Then light a gas, you drive the liquid to a boil and keep on low heat. Soon, you smell. There is some horrible. Tony's original recipe Barton predicted garden snails, but my smell is much more subtle. Exactly how smelly dog. [p. 93]
I read "Nocturnes" with growing surprise. Are you sure came from the pen of the same author who wrote "The Remains of the Day"? The gap so large that it's hard to believe. On the cover says that the common feature of "Nocturnes" is their lightness and humor. Perhaps. For me, their common feature is the shallowness and artificiality. It is not even a fancy story line, I mainly lacked cohesion and convincing characters. Slow pace and theme music is certainly not enough to be considered as a good text Ishiguro. One word - disappointment.
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Kazuo Ishiguro, "Nocturnes. Five short stories about music and dusk, the crowd. Lech Jęczmyk, Wydawnictwo Albatros A. Kurylowicz, Warsaw, 2010
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