Status Updates From DallerGut Dream Department ...

33%: point where I add definitely HETERONORMATIVITY-FOR-THE-WIN tag. I don't need a novel to have plot & story-w-in-a-story works great for me. It's interesting that so many E-Asian authors who produce this kind of fable-driven story structure get translated into English. Anyway. The profound misogyny of S. Korean culture feels esp. leaky in this part

Reading between the lines, our MC, Penny is - put politely - simple.

Unclear when I started this the first time (if I did) or if the idea that dreams are s/thing bought and sold in fancy department stores struck me as so cynical and distasteful that I immediately put it aside. BUT, what if it is intentionally cynical and distasteful? As a middle-aged millennial, would Lee ever write a sanguine account of capital-controlled sleep & subconscious? As as S. Korean, maybe so.