Rossini’s thieving magpie overture is on the list of excerpts for my exam, and Murakami happens to write about it ever so often. He mentions it as perfect background music to cooking spaghetti in the Wind-up Bird Chronicle, and later on in the same book, writes about a waiter who whistles the tune perfectly while carrying a tray of alcohol into a room.
Now i can’t play the excerpt without thinking about the pasta-cooking bit. As hz puts it, cognitively brainwashed.
how how how?