Peter's Funeral Procession

Saburo Sugimura-san is back.

 

I didn't expect him to return so quickly. After all the book was only out end of last year. My fingers still quiver a little thinking about how much "Somebody?" and "Nameless Poison" managed to mobilise in me last year. I really don't expect anything less from this sequel. Most interestingly it also has a Biblical theme this time round... As Sugimura and his wife stood in front of the Rembrandt and recounted the familiar story of Peter denying Christ, I really wondered how this story is going to unfold, and how it will come back to echo Peter's denial...

very very very intrigued... but as there is not yet a chinese translation to the book, I can't flip through the pages and find out the ending and now have to sit tight for the weekly episode in my impatient agitation... XD

on a more honest and uncomfortable note, i think i identify with Sugimura a lot... that despite being loved and blessed in many ways the awkward senses of being somewhat misfits where we are still linger on. not to say with our super sensitive antennas to the poisons of this world, despite coming across as meek and mild (and also very much wanting to be meek and mild) the things we think and say sometimes would utterly chill people to the bones no matter how nicely we put them...

so... let's do it again. back on the road of more self-discovery.
this time...a bit less frightened though, of the poisons around me, and of my own.

immensely touching ending theme, well suited.