Shocks are always sudden, and while we often learn to expect a shock or two in life, we never see them coming. That’s why they are shocking. Some shocks are a passing thing: I know a young woman (a student of mine here in Jeonju) who was just dumped by her boyfriend. One day he told her he loved her, and the next he said, “Forget I said that,” and dumped her. I can’t guess why he did this, but I know that the girl’s shock is a passing thing, for she is very young and very nice and is …
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Musical Weekend
Well… this weekend was busy. Friday I mostly slept, aside from some phone calls and SMS messages. I didn’t get enough sleep, but I did sleep. Saturday I wrote an email, which I won’t get into here but it was important for me to write it. Saturday afternoon, I planned on reading and writing and working on my blog a little, but I got a call from Myoung Jae telling me that the band needed to meet that afternoon, if possible. He was sick and medicated on Contact, so I didn’t feel my own slightly sore throat, by then mostly …
Jeonju Deep In에서
오늘 밤에 새로운 친구란 친구했어요. 우리 같이 술을 많이 마셨고 이야가 했어요. 재미 있는 시간이옜어요. 하지만 밴드가 내일 연습 해야되… 그래서 자요. 안녕…
Cong-Ja and The Confucian Society That Does Not Read Confucius
So it’s funny… The other night I was bitching to my friend Myoung Jae about how in Iksan, I was the only person I knew who’d actually sat down and read Confucius (or, as he’s known in Korea, Cong-Ja). Now, I’m not just talking about foreigners, I mean Koreans too. Korea’s supposed to be a Confucian society, after all. So you might think that a fair number of people are at least passingly familiar with The Analects or The Great Learning (I think this is the same book, by the way, but I am not sure). I asked Korean friends …
오늘은 행복하고 마음이 들다…
10월에 너무 아펐어요. 감기가 너무 너무 나빴고 고드를 죽이었어서 못 썼어요. 미안해요! 하지만 요즘 다 괜찬아요. 오늘은 우유를 없어지만 커피를 맛 있었어요. 오재밤에 학생이 나한테 핸드폰으로 SMS 매스지들이 보냈어. 슬픈 이야기 있었어요… 하지만 학생이 나중에 행복핼거예요. 나는 잘 졸 수 있어서 나도 행복 하고 생각 했어요. 뭐 생각 했어요? 사람들이 다 생월을 볼수없어서 사람들이 다른 사람을 많이 피료해요. 내 잘 못 보는것 다른 사람이 볼 수 있고 다른 사람의 잘 못 보는것 나는 때때로 볼수있어요. 오늘은 영화를 보�毛楮�… 같이 보고싶어요? 오늘은 완전히 정직 생월을 다시 시작했어요. 원야하면 정직하게 말 하면, 고요하게 살거예요. 오늘은 내 공상 과학 소설 (SF novel) 쓰기 …