In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
ADAM JOHNSONAll the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.
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[I]n communism, you’d threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
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But, in North Korea, it’s just the opposite. There’s one story. It’s written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years.
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That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?
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All the lessons you need to learn in life, he said, will be taught to you by your enemy.
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Conjure up all the strength you have and drive through whatever it is keeping you on your knees. Build up the strength and your knees may never buckle again!
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A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
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And secretly, he’d be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.
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What’s less romantic than staring alone at a blank screen? And edgy? I’ve changed the cat little because I didn’t know what my characters were going to say next.
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Still, I’d thought I’d had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
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. . . nobody every taught you loyalty . . .
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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can’t live with what they’ve done.
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“A name isn’t a person.” Ga said. “Don’t ever remember someone by their name.
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