Lederhosen

        By MURAKAMI haruki

        translated by Alfread Birnbaum

        "Mot; a friend of my ;all because of a pair of ss."

        Ive got to ask. "A pair of ss?"

        "I kno sounds strange," s;because it is a straory."

        A large    tutors electric an, but most of ime sennis, so srim and alanned. You migs fanatie days off, ss in a m run before o to do laps; t ternoon its tennis, follos, but Im nowhere near her league.

        I doo suggest s te trary, siring; stiional pressure on anyone. Only s attaco t body--craves vigorous activity, relentless as a et.

        o do tle on t siful--so, even agreed to take t iably, ten to tage, some problem hrough.

        Like my ;S unlucky."

        "ell, I guess," I sympathize.

        Im not in total agreement rue, luck may rule over parts of a persons life and luck may cast patc y laps or run ty kilometers--to overost any trouble. No,     on marrying, is . Marriage just doesnt fall , at least irely.

        And so sut electric aing every free moment to sports, falling regularly in and out of unlucky love.

        Its a rainy Sunday afternoon and s shopping.

        "Five me," s;I took a rain codays tennis,     t...Am I interrupting anyt;

        Not at all, I say. I didnt feel quite in to    sitting around, y lap, co tcc ty minutes of Jaicularly riveted to tube. But ys t of our eyes.

        Its ts roll up. No sign of t a bit. Sill no alking. No after an    is, s mine.

        Im already t popping in t video    fation--at least to my mind, ting up--but I uess a reason is w.

        "t really ss", s;t;

        "You mean ts traps?"

        "You got it. Fated a pair of leder. ell, Fatty tall for ion.    even look good i    you picture a Japanese man akes all kinds."

        Im still not any closer to tory. I o ask:    ances be--and of whese souvenir lederhosen?

        "Oelling t of order. Stop me if t make sense," she says.

        Okay, I say.

        "Moter . Someto do. Of course, Mot speak German, s eac overseas bee in . Itd been ages since s. So Mot taking ten days off and going to Germany, t allo, and Mot;

        "ts ?

        &qu; s;Mot ed    back, and Fat;

        "Okay so far."

        s    argue until all ;    storm out of t e    least not tly ther women.

        "Not a bad man, a    kind of a skirt-c; sosses off matter-of-factly. ions of alking. For a sed I almost t no, Im told, hes alive and well.

        "Fatroubles ting along just fine."

        t go    i. een days in Germany to nearly a monto tokyo, and o Japan, sayed er of hers in Osaka. She never did e bae.

        er--nor and il tal difficulties, ient one--so ploddingly patient in fact t simes ion; family al and moted to er. So    even make t to call, it o ts edly, but t o e to t ions were.

        In mid-September, ter returning to Japaions kno of told ;You o me." ould so explain,    ;Ive lost all love for you--in any way, s; Oely none.

        "All t; sells me. "But it    just ts splitting up many times, so I    psyc plain divorced    all t funny business, I    ten so upset. t Motoo. ts ;

        I nod.

        "Up until t point, Id alaken Motand by me. A    a ion. It    me so    able tive Mot time. I e ters asking o set traig sions, never even said sed to see me."

        It    until ter t sually saer ut electric an. Meanweac a prep school.

        s been able to talk to er because s knoo say. "I myself couldnt tell ;but it all started over t pair of ss."

        "Ss?" Sarted as I o speak to    curiosity got tter of er    into a nearby coffee sea. So    story.

        t sold to up for her.

        "All to buy ledersmans so expensive, said er.

        So Motrain to buy rain partment sat a middle-aged German couple, o buy leder; Mot;Vat so?" toget;Zat is ze place, ja is ze best."    very fident.

        It    old-fasooreets led in all dires, and cats o a cafe for a bite of kaseku and coffee.

        S sip of coffee and playing    tle too the shop.

        "t; Mother said.

        o travel by oneself, s as sones. In fact, t time in y-five years t sraveled alone. During trip, s once been lonely or afraid or bored. Every se t met     ouc sil ter-- o trouble hem.

        S problem. It iny old guild s didnt ourists, but inside she door and walked in.

        took dos and scribbled to a notebook. Beain divider one of sewing maes could be heard.

        "Darf ic; ther.

        "I    to buy leder; she responded in English.

        "For Madame?" he asked back.

        "No, I buy for my ;

        "Ac; said t;your    ;

        "No, I say already, ; she replied.

        "Ziss make problem." t;Ve do not make article for er ."

        "My ," Moth fidence.

        "Ja, of course, of course," tily. "Excuse my not good Englis I vant say, if your    exist    sell ze leder;

        "; Mother asked, perplexed.

        "Is store policy. Is unser Prinzip. Ve must see ze leder fit er, ve alter very nice, only zen ve sell. Over oion on ziss policy."

        "But I spend o e from o buy your leder;

        "Very sorry, Madame," said t;Ve make no exception. Ziss vorld is very uain vorld. trust is difficult sink to earn but easy sink to lose."

        Motood in trained o break tuation to te t differen size, tical expressions.

        "ell, per; Mot;I find man just like my    man puts on lederer very nice, you sell ledero me."

        t old man looked .

        "But, Madame, zat is against rule. Is not same man ;

        "Pretend you do not kno man and t man sell ledero me. t o your policy. Please, I beg you. I may never e back to Germany. If I do not buy leder;

        "; ted.    for a feuro tream in German. times. turned baot;Very ion--very exception, you please uand--ve vill knoter. Not so many e from Yapan to buy leder;

        "t; so t;Das ist so    vor I; Ser ory--folds able and sig of my coffee, long since cold. till no sign of t tiourn?

        "So t; I interject, eager to ;Did your mot;

        "Yes," sterly    expression. "Mot on a bencc t. it asking    seems t speak a ;

        "t; I joke.

        "I dont kno ; s;tuation to ted to stand in for Fats tug tling ay miime Moto divorce Fat;

        "ait," I say, "I do. Did somety minutes?"

        "Not all. Only t;

        "But ?"

        "ts somet uand after all time. It made    t man in t an unbearable disgust rising io    back. Mot from tly like Fatrying on ttle boy. As Motood t tain about sloogeto somets ;

        My s alk, but Im still t the lederhosen.

        "So, you dont e your mot; I ask whe room.

        "No, not really. ere not close at all, but I dont    ;

        "Because sold you about t;

        "I ter so me, I couldnt go on ing    say ainly dont kno, but it may o do ;

        "Still, if you leave t of it, supposing it    tory of a aking a trip and finding ive ;

        "Of course not," s ation. "t is t?"

        A proxy pair of leder her never even received.
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