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T-ideas: Ten insights inspired by Murakami T

Ten "T-ideas" inspired by Haruki Murakami's book Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love. Translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel, Penguin Random House 2021. From the back cover: "The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet... Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public."

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1. Let Your Imagination Take Over

Murakami treasures his Tony Takitani T-shirt. He ran across it bought it for a dollar in a Maui thrift shop. Then he simply asked himself, "What kind of person could Tony Takitani be?" and let his imagination take over. Murakami imagined all sorts of scenarios and wrote a short story with him as a protagonist. Later it was made into a film. Murakami writes, "I've made a lot of investments in my life, but this was, hands down, the absolute best."

Murakami had no idea who Tony Takitani was and wondered what the word "House" and the letter "D" on the shirt meant, but eventually he learned that Tony Takitani was a candidate running for the Hawaii House of Representatives as a Democrat. Afterwards all this Murakami actually received a letter from the real Tony Takitani, who explained he had lost the election, but is now a successful lawyer.

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T-ideas: Ten insights inspired by Murakami T

1. Let Your Imagination Take Over

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