1. Monk essentially living inside the game 2333. Much needed structure for his peripatetic, unanchored life.
2. Small child sees online world as the real one, latter often marred/dullened by the whims & demands of adults.
#Edpark Same Bed Different Dreams (Hm...titled "2333" in Fr.) #NowReading
"These are unnatural Koreans, situated too far from home. They have darkened from their time working sugar in Hawaii. The Koreans in KOREA accept their fate, in his experience."
129 Dream Two (E's book) from #EdPark Same Bed Different Dreams 📚
A reason for living w/ the North's nuclear threat? 🧐
Finished #AnOralHistoryofAtlantis
#EdPark
A NOTE TO MY TRANSLATOR
Page two...Why "knickers"?
Page ten...Here you present a heated argument between two nuns (and are they truly robot nuns?), both of whom speak a weird amalgam of Cantonese and the International Morse Code.
Can you help me? Please?
#AnOralHistoryofAtlantis
#EdPark
When I call my parents, my mom tells me my dad is busy teaching a class on the internet…Is it that they need the money…My mom sells my old comic books and De La Soul cassingles on eBay. She doesn't know I know.
#DeLaSoul
#AnOralHistoryofAtlantis
#EdPark
Something tells me Tabby will never finish her dissertation. Part of her wants to finish just to finish…wants "PhD" after her name. But realistically, she's never going to teach. There are no jobs in robot literature or manservant literature.
Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 7
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#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November7 #DanielDefoe #RichardSteele #ElenaFerrante #MichellePorter #EdPark #booksky
Today in Bookish and Literary History, November 7
#OnThisDay #ThisDayinHistory #OTD #November7 #DanielDefoe #RichardSteele #ElenaFerrante #MichellePorter #EdPark #booksky
#SameBedDifferentDreams
#EdPark
Kim Hye-gyung, born in 1910, the same year Korea becomes Japan's colony…finds work as an architect for the colonial government. Under the name Yi Sang, he composes hundreds of poems…One poem asks, "Did the straight line murder the circle?"
Finished #SameBedDifferentDreams
#EdPark
"That is my homeland song," he says.
"What does 'Arirang' mean?" asks Jessie.
"Old Korean word," he says. He wishes he had a better answer. “Arirang is a sound, an emotion…a song about leaving," says Syngman…”Leaving behind a place or person you love."
#SameBedDifferentDreams
#EdPark
How was it, Ko demanded, that these nations had fought against Japan…were now pitted against each other, taking Korea apart…
Parker would shrug…
"Shrimp between whales, eh?" Ko cackled…”Korea she is shrimp…Same bed, different dreams. Korea-she is
bed."
