草枕 9

那美さんとの会話。那美さんの一本勝ち…一枚上手。鏡が池に、身を投げて浮いてる姿を絵に描いてくれるように言われて、タジタジ。

• 画家の非人情的小説の読み方

小説なんか、始めから終わりまで順を追わずに、ランダムに開けたところをいい加減に読むのが、面白いんだって(^0^)/
'Really? I suppose that is what makes you an artist.'と言われて、
'Exactly. And because I am an artist I find any passage of a novel interesting even when it is out of context. I find it interesting talking to you - so much so in fact that I'd like to talk to you every day while I'm here. I'll even fall in love with you if you like; that would be particularly interesting. But however deeply I were to fall in love with you it would not mean that we had to get married. If you think that marriage is the logical conclusion to falling in love, then it becomes necessary to read novels through from beginning to end.'