There are ghosts caught between the pages of this old book I have, pressed like moths between the paper. I can see their shadows when I turn the pages, the line of a shoulder here, the curve of an eyebrow there. Sometimes, when the light is just right, I can see the ghosts on facing pages, one man, one woman, features blurred but shapes revealing their existence.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve never read this book. I\u2019ve given up trying. Every time I open it, I am distracted by the figures sliding across the pages, and I quickly lose interest in the narrative of the novel and instead want to stare and stare at the ghosts inside.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I see a set of numbers drift like a cloud over the surface of the paper: 13<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sometimes there is a statue as well, some tall and thin tribal figure, carved I think from dark wood.<\/p>\n This book was in the house when I moved in, on a shelf with a dozen other thick and ancient books, all belonging I assume to my grandfather. None of the others have ghosts inside, only this one.<\/p>\n If I close my eyes and listen carefully, I can hear the rough sound of fingertips slipping over paper.<\/p>\n It\u2019s so soothing that some nights, when I can\u2019t sleep, I lay the book face up on my bedside table and listen to the whisper of ghostly fingers rustling the paper until the dawn creeps in.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve never even read it, but my favorite story in the world lives in this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are ghosts caught between the pages of this old book I have, pressed like moths between the paper. I can see their shadows when I turn the pages, the line of a shoulder here, the curve of an eyebrow there. Sometimes, when the light is just right, I can see the ghosts on facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[94,95,96],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-my-house","tag-books","tag-ghosts","tag-things-that-please-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kamekomurakami.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}