12월, 2023의 게시물 표시

The Shawl - Cynthia Ozick

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  Some foods are in my favor while the others are not. Some songs make me repeat them again and again, while the others are not attractive for me at all. It's a matter of preference, thus there's no correct answer. Same is it for me, novel. Novels enthralls me, which draws a landscapes that corresponds with my own sentiment. This kind of novels, in most case, provides atmosphere making readers withdraw into their gloomy emotions. It has been a long time to read a novel that has aforesaid atmosphere. The dusky inside of me was aroused by The Shawl. To be honest, The Shawl is not close to the atmosphere that I mentioned. It would be appropriate to say that it feels like someone is scratching my skin with no nail on fingers, as extending her arm desperately. The title itself describes its whole story. The Shawl throws up a story of someone who is struggling to escape from a shawl suddenly thrown away on her. It's not a talk. Literally it's vomiting and throwing up. Fear, s...

Editorial Thinking - Hyejin Choi / Turtleneck Press

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   "What can we find?" might be a question of the generation before us. During that era, the internet was not widespread and only a few people had computer, not to mention smartphone. If chasing back even earlier period, it was not a common thing to have a book. Book was a storage allowed for few privileged minority. ... Now we ask a new question. "What to find?" "What to leave?" Information is everywhere. We are obligated to judge which one is informative and not, and the latter one should be thrown away. It must have us to take a responsibility to spread fake news. There is still a problem if we find out qualified fact. "So what's the point?" People are lack of ability to understand original document, non-summarized one. ... Editing is superior to information collecting. We have to deliver what we want to say in an understandable format for most people, as a short one, only with necessary things. Editorial Thinking It addresses how we shoul...