Barry Welsh
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Book cover for One Nation Under Blackmail – Vol. 2: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein Vol. 2
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. [laughter] But since the Freedom of Information Act, I’m afraid to say things like that. – Henry Kissinger, Memorandum of Conversation, March 10, 1975
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Steven Pinker
“Though the 20th century saw horrific genocides inspired by Nazi pseudoscience about genetics and race, it also saw horrific genocides inspired by Marxist pseudoscience about the malleability of human nature. The real threat to humanity comes from totalizing ideologies and the denial of human rights, rather than a curiosity about nature and nurture.”
Steven Pinker

Hye-Young Pyun
“Though it wasn’t a very nice method, whenever he felt like he didn’t understand his wife’s family, he simply told himself he was dealing with foreigners.”
Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

“The language of women accustomed to violence was silence and lies.”
Jung-Myung Lee, Broken Summer

Virginia Woolf
“Indeed, it is the soul [itself ] that is the chief character in Russian fiction.”
Virginia Woolf

Hye-Young Pyun
“What he’d really returned to was this noisy, crowded, queuing, waiting, leering world. The world where, as his doctor explained, the only way to survive was through sheer force of will.”
Hye-Young Pyun, The Hole

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This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
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