Strange things can happen. Just before my trip to Kauai in February, I was desperately fighting against time to finish up my book. One of the last portions of the book I wrote was a section called NOWHERE EVERYWHERE and in my mind the section tells the soul of the book. I wrote it in haste, gave it to my editor, and hopped on the airplane to jump half the pond to my beloved island.
Then I bought a copy of the novel Symptomatic by breathtakingly good-looking Danzy Senna, whom I had already written about several years ago on her essay "Mulatto Nation." Then on the page 48/49 (I can't reproduce the book's crazy pagination----you should see it for yourself) is written as the protagonist's newly found friend Greta's words: "I always tell people I'm from Nowhere. Everywhere."
The sad book proves Greta to be muy loca in the tragic end. It's a book about at least two people from nowhere, nowhere everywhere.
After I got back to Japan I learned there is a song by the Japanese idol singer Ayumi Hamasaki titled "Everywhere nowhere." Probably the implication is not so close as it may seem. But the combination of these two words have been resounding in my mind. In fact I might change this blog's name to: NOWHERE EVERYWHERE.
