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"What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness."

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thought i wouldnt like the first novella, but after reaching the last page, i found myself lingering on d’s "Why is my loved one not with me?" as i kept rereading the homecoming part over and over. even though i feel like the topics that hwang jungeun brought up in "d" may be a little too grand for a novella, which at times made it feel fragmented, but overall the message and nuance still came across.

"Shame is what saved me. (...) Yes, it may well be a hundred years ago now, but in all those years it’s stayed with me. (...) My grandchild and daughter say I live in a scrapheap and they’re ashamed of it, but I don’t see the shame. I know shame, and this isn’t it. It’s natural, not shameful, for the living to be surrounded by life’s scraps, natural and unavoidable."