Salman Rushdie screeched to a halt. "I'll never find Balzac here", he thought, "this is Tokyo!". "And now I'm in somebody else's fiction! What a day!". As soon as the signal changed to green (or blue) he sped off into the light.
A week or so later on a windy afternoon T.T.R. (Thunder-Trout Rushdie, a distant relative (seventh cousin) of the famous writer) had a closer look at the shiny thing he noticed on the ground. Today he lent his Karmann Ghia to Salman, so he happened to be walking in Shimokitazawa, a cosy corner of the Solar System. The thing at his feet had the colour of a stainless steel trout, and its shape seemed to be perfectly round. He picked it up and saw he's caught a hundred yen coin! "What shall I do with this lucky coin?" - he wondered.
T.T.R. considered his options. Buy something in the 100-yen store or put the coin in a UFO-catcher in the rye. Neither option thrilled him very much. Just then he saw Dorama CD store and there was the solution. Outside the store was a basket of discs with a sign saying "Albanian Top 20 CDs" and the magic words, "100 yen". Yes! As he stood there, flicking through the crazily-titled CDs he became aware of someone next to him doing the same. He looked at the person's hands. A lady's hands. Hands he recognised...
Yes, her ring! The golden ring with the banana-shaped pearl! TTR suddenly recalled the night he saw the famous lady for the first time. It had been at a roof-top party at Dracula's summer house in Tokyo, a few years earlier. That night he arrived late because of a mango traffic jam on the Roman Rd, and he lost his chance to join the game of Albanian Roulette. He remained ignorant about the rules to this day. Dracula and his friends had finished playing by then and everyone was on the roof-top, sipping their banana-lattes in the sharp moonlight. And now he is standing next to her again at last! Trying to avoid to be recognised, she is hiding her face behind a trout mask replica. TTR's heart was beating in his throat.
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Salman Rushdie screeched to a halt. "I'll never find Balzac here", he thought, "this is Tokyo!". "And now I'm in somebody else's fiction! What a day!". As soon as the signal changed to green (or blue) he sped off into the light.
A week or so later on a windy afternoon T.T.R. (Thunder-Trout Rushdie, a distant relative (seventh cousin) of the famous writer) had a closer look at the shiny thing he noticed on the ground.
Today he lent his Karmann Ghia to Salman, so he happened to be walking in Shimokitazawa, a cosy corner of the Solar System.
The thing at his feet had the colour of a stainless steel trout, and its shape seemed to be perfectly round.
He picked it up and saw he's caught a hundred yen coin!
"What shall I do with this lucky coin?" - he wondered.
T.T.R. considered his options. Buy something in the 100-yen store or put the coin in a UFO-catcher in the rye. Neither option thrilled him very much. Just then he saw Dorama CD store and there was the solution. Outside the store was a basket of discs with a sign saying "Albanian Top 20 CDs" and the magic words, "100 yen". Yes!
As he stood there, flicking through the crazily-titled CDs he became aware of someone next to him doing the same. He looked at the person's hands. A lady's hands. Hands he recognised...
Yes, her ring!
The golden ring with the banana-shaped pearl! TTR suddenly recalled the night he saw the famous lady for the first time.
It had been at a roof-top party at Dracula's summer house in Tokyo, a few years earlier. That night he arrived late because of a mango traffic jam on the Roman Rd, and he lost his chance to join the game of Albanian Roulette. He remained ignorant about the rules to this day. Dracula and his friends had finished playing by then and everyone was on the roof-top, sipping their banana-lattes in the sharp moonlight.
And now he is standing next to her again at last! Trying to avoid to be recognised, she is hiding her face behind a trout mask replica.
TTR's heart was beating in his throat.
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