'그냥 쓰기'에 해당되는 글 72건
- 2012/05/04 Gedankenlied
- 2012/05/01 excrephanies
- 2012/04/20 늦봄노래
- 2012/04/16 또 하나의 허랑방탕했던 주말을 이별하며
- 2012/04/13 correspondence
- 2012/03/22 초상 (2)
- 2012/02/28 천진한 마음
- 2012/02/25 설날은 지루하다
- 2012/02/04 Standing up to boredom
- 2012/01/28 See how Time flies
Jon wantoned to make him selfish a profitcer, a sir-ting the virtus of busybeeing a schooler. Therefore I met him the other night whilst finishing my cigarette and weetalked his lovely honors thesis and the greatness of it, until melancholy slipped into my irritable bowels (like the panting deer thirsting for water brooks I sought out a toilet; And suddenly a greatful tempest arose on the sea, and the disciples were seized with panic. Jesus awoke and ordered the surging storm, "Be Calm."), so I barked and forthed to say, "also, ich muss jetzt gehen. Gooluck with your honors, revel in your laboratory; I on my part will go to lavatory and work on my anus project." I laughed him. O howl I loathe his proudent eyes. Love thy neighboor, saith hymn, and aye, when I am merry with heavenly sake I shall pour love on thy thighs and thighs’ neighbor.
Sweet love,
You were so sugary,
You’ve given me a toothache
In my heart.
There were days when I like a love-struck fool sat down to write. I bound marcelf onto a rock. Each time I wrote a word, pang of anxiety came flying in like a raven and sat by my side and, with its raptorial beaks, munched on my swollen liver intoxicated by idleness. But no more. I am a loafer supreme O sweet indolence annuls all. Indeed the generous Mother Mudd in my absence has filled my body once again with warm blood and posited strength in my muscles that every corner of my existence throbs with life and even when I fart it sounds like a joyous hymn of a convalescent. My mind turns happy like that plump Buck Mulligan, Dionysus laureled with a tambourine dancing shaking a grapevine wreath. In the midst of o the myriad mouths murmuring feces on Fecebook, I prattle and procrastinate my being freely, frivolously, without much contemporation on the truelty of life. My hands refuse to werk and my tongue presently only befits crafted gibberish.
See how Time flies like an ancient owl,
Frowning, upon us emptying its bowels.
I open my mouth like a beggar's bowl
But the fleeting muses, alas, drop not a vowel.
All said, mein Gedankenfreund, all said. All boors me to tears and thou art deerly missled in my hart. List! List! O list! Hamlet, I am thy father’s spit. Anal-yse these excrephanies thoroughly. For now I must return to the seventh Hell reserved for those having foolishly ventured to write something worthwhile. I am Lazarus the beggar brought to Hell by the capitalist Good - a tipful of water to cool off my tongue! Have only mercy, O farther Abraham, and kindly tell my kindsmen not to walk on the same pathway as I did!
길섶에는 새초롬한 담배꽁초들
흰 연기로 피어났던 이국異國의 풀들
가만 코를 들이밀고 들여다보면
숨어있는 불꽃 씨가 귀엽고 예뻐요
이제는 져버린 꽃잎이지만
청소부를 기다리는 신세이지만서도
나비 날 때 함께 날던 설레임으로
도란도란 모여 앉아 땅과 같이 웃어요
Another foolish weekend has slipped away from us. All the precious moments of merrymaking, mirth and laughter, and dear memories of late risings now puff out in a single sigh and grow dim and faint as the misty vapor after fireworks, having once colored the night sky like youthful constellations, forever out of reach. Mixed with caffeine, they swirl into the mirky revolving that is the state of our already sleep-deprived mind. Yet we go on. Like the old deluded knight of the spanish countryside charging headlong at the windmill we have no fear, boldly striding through the ugly mouth of the library gaping at us and into the deepest abyss of the devouring creature, steps in sync with the sombre processional march ringing in the vast night air, to die a valiant hero's death.
Once again, (in relation to each other) we are reduced to digital beings lacking in corporeality, mere words on a flickering screen. But such is our modern existence, such is the price we must pay for our cosmopolitan life styles. Let this be a bountiful correspondence...
How was your weekend?
Magnanimously,
M
These days my brain is drowned in triviality. My hands refuse to work. You know I rarely command words like you do but fight them. For now I can only write to you a few ready-made paragraphs filled with outworn laments that sound familiar. Things that I want to say fail to find adequate forms and sounds and instead scatter away in the air. My tongue presently only befits crafted gibberish.
April strokes me with graceful serendipity and grants me to work with no life in exchange for sanity. I have my translation and thesis to complete! Joyce is a joy to read and Beckett beckons me away silently. Kafka and Kierkegaard kick me in the kidney. Gi fills me daily with the guilty conscience of the procrastinator. I shall no longer procrastinate my being.
I hope these words serve to entertain you for now, for now I must return to the seventh Hell reserved for those having foolishly ventured to write something worthwhile. I am Lazarus the beggar brought to Hell by the capitalist Good - a tipful of water to cool off my tongue! O but have mercy, father Abraham, and kindly tell my kinsmen not to walk on the same pathway as I did!
Tragicomically,
S
May I take the liberty of saying that in my opinion Lunar New Year in Korea is boring. It is the time of the year when you are shoved into a car, driven out of the city, leaving behind the beautiful forest of buildings and misty smog, and visit your grandparents who dwell in the monotony of green and the helpless boredom of the countryside, where the air is too fresh and the water abnormally clean. And that's not the worst part. The moment they see you, your grandparents will set out to stuff your stomach with all kinds of food, drink, and snack, that are all made at home, until you become so full that you will begin to think of the leftover Chinese food in your fridge that you could have just put in the microwave to cook. Things get worse once your other relatives arrive. We have this peculiar tradition of bowing to your elders, who will then exchange your respect with certain commodities, such as new year's wishes, platitudes, or allowance money. Who likes money anyway? And then another vicious cycle of eating, talking, watching movies, and playing games ensues. It's like Christmas here. So, in conclusion, Korean Lunar new year is boring.
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이번 주말에 한국학생회가 베트남 그리고 중국학생회와 함께 주최하는 Lunar New Year Banquet을 위해 '나의 설날 이야기'라는 주제로 짧은 영상을 찍어 보내달라는 부탁을 받았는데 졸음을 이겨가며 어찌어찌 쓰다 보니 이런 글이 나왔다. 청중 여러분께서 예쁘게 봐주셨으면 좋겠다.
Sometimes, often in the middle of those painful efforts to naturally interact with people, I ponder upon the possibility that I might as well be the most boring person in the world, that there is, sadly, absolutely nothing in me to interest people that I love. I have actually wrestled with this problem for quite a long time, until I reached this odd conclusion that might interest at least you: Qua holder of the modifier "the most", however the most boring person in the world, strictly speaking, should be of at least some interest after all. Because, like those with unique abilities listed on the Guinness Book of Records, exceptional people deserve some interest. ("So, you are the most boring person in the world, how interesting.") 'All right,' I say to myself, 'then perhaps I am the second most boring person in the world, and that way I would be as boring as I suffer.' Following my previous reasoning, however, there is currently no person more boring than the second most boring person in the world, who should now be identified as the most boring person in the world. Then maybe the third.... the fifth.... and so on and so forth; until I face the fact that, if I am not mistaken and my logic is sound, I will eventually have to accept the position of the least boring person in the world, i.e.: I am a priori the most interesting person in the world! Tears of consolation flow over my cheeks...
And we drown. In tears... In boredom....
(The distant sea waves parched up to skin in a arid desert is to be heard all through this letter) ...... I seriously wonder what I am doing here and now, boring myself and them, aimlessly roaming in touristy places, squandering my parents' hard-earned pay. A fourth-year English major soon to be graduated (quite passively) and spat out of college (quite possibly), I am still purposeless and underachieving (positively). True, I've been rather blithely casual about my life in general, and I have never seriously considered making plans for future, as I've always done and regretted for the past two decades. But as I face my last semester at Oberlin, with an ominous anticipation about grades for the Fall that I think will be very bad, I am now a little bit worried. What am I going to be, or, if I'm not qualified to wonder even that, do? I have all too long foolishly surrounded myself with melancholy and idleness in order to shun away the truelty of life.
During our week-long stay in C, I read the first half of Either/Or and also halfwaythrough To the Lighthouse. I am already as tired of this world as the aesthete Either/Or or the Preacher in the Ecclesiastes, without having enjoyed all the earthly pleasures they know so well and throughly both mentally and physically. No wonder I'm without philosophy. I am like the bitter widow whose complains not even the just judge would lend ears to. I think I perfectly understand Prufrock when he beckons his lover to come away with him as soon as he opens his mouth, which, however, lacks the strength and courage to actually deliver his words sonically. I think this holds true for many men: what we really need is one who is simple, but attentive and clever enough to actually care about us and about our work. 'To hell with what others think but only you matter' kind of thing. But then Mr. Ramsey in To The Lighthouse has Mrs. Ramsey, and he still considers himself a failure. How vain, when I think about the Nepalis migrant workers and their children in your film; yet how infinitely sad, that we are all human beings who need daily food and daily defecation?
(......)
This evening, however, I hastily wrote a short poem. Below is an equally haste English translation of the song:
Gedankenlied (Thought Song)
Creatures that barely live on
Lean against each other and doze.
On the surface of the water*,
A dense, hazy flock of waterfowls.
My heart, this poor one,
Couldn't build itself a home.
So, alone, after sunset,
It wanders by the water.
A sigh as small as a pebble -
I pick it up and cast it to the water.
So the flock takes wing,
Flying in your direction.
*'the surface of the water', in Korean, sounds the same as 'sleep'
I'll probably regret it once I wake up tomorrow morning!
Yours,
S
Frowning, upon us emptying its bowels.
I open my mouth like a beggar's bowl,
But the fleeting Muses drop not a vowel.
저기 시간이 나는 것 좀 보게
늙고 살찐 부엉이처럼
찌푸린 얼굴로
머리 위에 똥을 갈기네
가엾어라, 나는
동냥 그릇 마냥 입만 벌리고
지나치네, 영감靈感은
낱말 한 톨 적선도 아깝다고