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Norwegian Wood
Murakami's novel, and Reiko's first-class matchbox.
Norwegian Wood (1987) by Haruki Murakami. Reiko Ishida — the older woman at the mountain sanatorium — on what she is to other people:
I have a lot more patience for others than I have for myself, and I'm much better at bringing out the best in others than in myself. That's just the kind of person I am. I'm the scratchy stuff on the side of the matchbox. But that's fine with me. I don't mind at all. Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.
A lexicon term to be derived from the matchbox.