My ICM final proposal.

1. Murakami Too
Song Hia

2. Murakami Too lets
you translate pretty
much anything into
the prose of Haruki
Murakami.

3. He has a distinct
style…

4. “He (Jay Rubin) shared the story of a time
when he gave Murakami a headache with his
pages and pages of notes and questions,
seeking clarity on things such as ambiguous
language use to inconsistencies in the
narrative that could have been either
deliberate or unintentional.”
from Haruki Murakami: A Conversation, a talk at Berkeley, October 11, 2008

5. “She (Rebecca Suter) described Murakami's
writing as a Japanization of western
language and indicative of the relationship
between Japan and the West, which is not
so much a passive imitation of foreign
models but an active appropriation that
destabilizes it. ”
from Haruki Murakami: A Conversation, a talk at Berkeley, October 11, 2008

6. distinct themes…

7. distinct behaviors…

8. distinct prose…

9. …

10. similar projects

11. gizoogle.Net

12. wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/

13. approach

14. I. identify hallmarks of Murakami’s prose
commonly used words: identified via developing
concordance of a data set of his works
recurring phrases (putting on a jazz record,
surreal mundane observations, expression of
existential angst, etc. see bingo)
grammatical structure

15. II. identifying, appending, replacing elements
in text to be translated
synonyms: replace with Murakami’s dictionary
recurring phrases: deciding how to interject
these
grammatical structure (unknown, can existing
libraries be leveraged)

16. “Unfortunately, the clock is ticking,
the hours are going by. The past
increases, the future recedes.
Possibilities decreasing, regrets
mounting.”
― Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance