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“Jeong-dae, who nonchalantly slid the blackboard cleaner into his book bag.
‘What’re you taking that for?’
‘To give to my sister.’
‘What’s she going to do with it?’
‘Well, she keeps talking about it. It’s her main memory of middle school.’
‘A blackboard cleaner? Must have been a pretty boring time.’
‘No, it’s just there was a story connected with it. It was April Fool’s Day, and the kids in her class covered the entire blackboard with writing, for a prank - you know, because the teacher would have to spend ages getting it all off before he could start the lesson. But when he came in and saw it he just yelled, “Who’s classroom monitor this week?” - and it was my sister. The rest of the class carried on with the lesson while she stood out in the corridor, dangling the cloth out of the window and beating it with a stick to bash the chalk dust out. It is funnv, though, isn’t it? Two years at middle school, and that’s what she remembers most.”
― Han Kang, Human Acts