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“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.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“My face becomes a strip of skin before your face in moonlight my words of praise for you are left unsaid but like a sigh they tickle open a sliding paper door and creep into your hair smelling like camellia fields and transplant seedlings of my sorrow”
― Yi Sang: Selected Works
― Yi Sang: Selected Works
“I’ve seen people living in every kind of house. And do you know what I’ve concluded from that? It’s that people are all the same, everywhere. Yangban, commoner, rich man, beggar, they’re all the same.”
― The Picture Bride
― The Picture Bride
“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.”
― The Hole
― The Hole
“Rather than working and becoming a socially responsible person, rather than listening to my wife's lectures, I wanted to be as idle as the idlest animal on earth. I wanted to cast off as much as possible the meaningless mask of humanity.
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― The Wings
I was shy of human society. I was shy of life. Everything was strange and unfamiliar to me.”
― The Wings
Seoul Book Club Hosted by Barry Welsh
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This is a book club for discussing Korea-related books. Everyone is welcome.
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Barry’s 2025 Year in Books
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