Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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When I was young, coffee shops were dangerous venues. I was never allowed to go to one. Youths would congregate and drink frothy coffee – we had never heard of cappuccinos- and stay for ages getting up to some sort of mischief. These days, the main mischief is young folks, sitting with half a cup of cold coffee, occupying the best seats and fiddling endlessly with their laptops.
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a coffee bar where it’s best not to let your coffee get cold – that is, if you sit in a certain chair where you may, if you wish, briefly revisit the past. (Watch the coffee!) For the time travellers it’s terribly important not to do anything the disrupt the present, but it addresses a yearning, that I am sure we all have, to focus on what we did not do, did not ever say. The more they delve, the more poignant the dilemma.
The book is ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ by the Japanese star, Toshikazu Kawaguchi. I loved it.
David

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