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Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war that's been going on for so long people have stopped believing it's real. They build hotels, put up neon signs, but it's all fake, we're on a knife-edge, it could all give way any moment. We're living in limbo. In the winter that never ends.
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People always think they have time.Im only twenty-four.Exactly.
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Wifi password: ilovesokcho
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I didnt want to be his eyes in my world. I wanted to be seen. I wanted him to see me with his own eyes.
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He arrived bundled up in a woolen coat.And the man on the waves, feeling his way through the winter, Slipping passively beneath the waves, an afterimage in his wake, a womans shoulder, belly, breast, the small of her back, the lines tapering to become a mere stroke of the pen, a thread of ink on the thigh, and on the thigh a long, fine scar carved with a brush on the scales of a fish.
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What I mean is you may have had your wars, Im sure there are scars on your beaches, but thats all in the past. Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war thats been going on for so long people have stopped believing its real. They build hotels, put up neon signs, but its all fake, were on a knife-edge, it could all give way any moment. Were living in limbo. In a winter that never ends.
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Hed never understand what Sokcho was like. You had to be born here, live through the winters. The smells, the octopus. The isolation.
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For five hundred won, you could gaze at North Korea. I slid a coin in the slot. It was so cold our eyelids stuck to the metal frames. To the right, the ocean. To the left, a wall of mountains. Ahead of us, fog. Not much a of a view, but what could you expect with this weather?
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That was Sokcho, always waiting, for tourists, boats, men, spring
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Our beaches are still waiting for the end of a war thats been going on for so long people have stopped believing its real.
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