February 2012
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“illness is frequently a form of expression rather than a surrender to natural...”
– A Fortunate Man by John Berger
“My foot on dust means dust steps on itself
Until time turns one of us to stone.”
– From Möbius Crowns, by Srikanth Reddy & Dan Beachy-Quick (via ecantwell)
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“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn’t summon...”
– The Tiger’s Wife | Téa Obrecht
January 2012
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aubzillatron:
“Tonight even you cannot take the place of you. I peel your birthmark from my cheek and toss it to the yard crows. For you to feel their beak marks would be everything.”
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Anonymous asked: can you help me? i can't find ed lam's album happy hippy
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Anonymous asked: what are your favourite melancholy k-indie songs?
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December 2011
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Settling down with a cup of tea and a homemade meringue to begin reading Alejandro Zambra’s ‘The Private Lives of Trees’
Want to keep track of Kim Jong-un's early...
koreanewsline:
As North Korea prepares for Kim Jong-il’s funeral on Wednesday, Scott Snyder of the Council on Foreign Relations looks ahead to other milestone events that could provide a glimpse of Kim Jong-un’s durability as North Korea’s new leader. They include the North Korean leadership’s annual new year’s message (Jan. 1), Kim Jong-un’s birthday (Jan. 8), Kim Jong-il’s birthday (Feb. 16)...
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“You see, being I am in love, I am willing to be so in order and rule: I have...”
– Letter from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu to Anne Wortley (1709)
KOREA NEWSLINE: Factors weighing against a... →
koreanewsline:
With the death of Kim Jong-il, is the reunification of the Korean peninsula any closer? At least in the short term, probably not. One obvious reason is that the surviving members of the North Korean leadership will move quickly to maintain the status quo — whether or not Kim Jong-eun succeeds his…
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“The cranium is a space-traveler’s helmet. Stay inside or you perish.”
– Pnin | Vladimir Nabokov
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November 2011
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tychul asked: that book is amaziiiingggg. i have like, an entire shelf dedicated to books on north korea. :D /ok going back to scrolling lolololo
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“The term ‘gyokusai’ (literally, ‘jewel breaking’)...”
– From So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers | Donald Keene
Casual Days / Issue 0.1: Travelers
Living 生活 In Place 所屬的位置 – Darryl Wee A Way of Recording 紀錄的方式 – Lin Weidong Tokyo 東京- Shauba Chang And This Time I Promise We Won’t Get Stranded 而，這次，我答應你我們不會再受困 – Kenny Leck A Slow Life 慢慢地生活 – Meizi Luo I Heard the Train Singing 聽見火車 – Carrie Yeo Making Photographs 拍照 – Sam Kang Li Living on the Train 住在火車上 – Wang Chuen Tz Anonymous Men 陌生人 – Rebecca Toh
Culture 文化 Art – The...
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October 2011
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“When he was young, there had only been one reality, and the future had seemed to...”
– Runaway Horses | Yukio Mishima
“It is not, however, the blackness of despair. It is without expression. Or, one...”
– Entry for August 10, 1945 in Takami Jun nikki, vol.4, p.396
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“If I happen to have seen a hand
before my eyes, I hope in all earnest
that it...”
– From Chrysanthemums, Rowers by Hans Faverey
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Fascinasians: Critical race and postcolonial... →
colorblinding:
A few weeks ago, I posted an “introduction” to critical race theory list. Here is a more comprehensive list that includes some postcolonial works as well. This list is incomplete and you might find some authors have competing, if not completely opposing methodologies. This list…
September 2011
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Excerpt from 'The Gasfitter's Ballad' by Gerrit...
Translation by J.M.Coetzee from the book ‘Landscape with Rowers: Poetry from the Netherlands’
August 2011
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Tuesday Poem: Excerpt from 'Men, Having Read my...
To save myself from the fear of death,
I became desperate about the “desperate times” and wrote.
My countrymen at the front lines read these poems.
Men read them and went to their deaths.
The Submarine captain who wrote his family
That he reread my poems each day soon afterward went down
with his ship.
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More poems posted on a Tuesday can be found here
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“I breathe more easily, now that I have become accustomed to freedom, but at the...”
– Entry for October 23, 1945, in Takami Jun nikki, vol.6, p.19
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