"Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying to slip through it. But even if you go to the ends of the earth, you won't be able to escape it. Still, you have to go there- to the edge of the world. There's something you can't do unless you get there."

「海辺のカフカ」 ♥ 村上春樹
'Kafka on the Shore', Haruki Murakami



Thursday, June 17, 2010

Japanese Manzai (comic dialogue)

And you thought that the disappearing subject* only caused problems for gaijin ...

This is a manzai (漫才 comic dialogue) and might be the funniest thing I have ever watched in Japanese. English subtitles come attached.


*In Japanese, once the subject of a sentence has been established, it is thought not necessary to state it again, unless the subject changes. To use the wonderful Jay Rubin's example, as he gives it in 'Making Sense of Japanese':

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