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Young-ha Kim

Diary of a Murderer

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  • Feriohas quotedlast month
    The poetry teacher at the community center was a male poet around my age. On the first day of class he made me laugh when he said solemnly, “Like a skillful killer, a poet is someone who seizes language and ultimately kills it.”

    This was after I’d already “seized and ultimately killed” dozens of prey and buried them. But I didn’t think what I did was poetry. Murder’s less like poetry and more like prose. Anyone who tries it knows that much. Murdering someone is even more troublesome and filthy than you think
  • Feriohas quotedlast month
    I also kept meticulous records of every step of my murders and what I felt about them.

    It was a stupid thing to do.

    Coming up with sentences was grueling. I wasn’t trying to be literary and it was just a daily log, so why was it so difficult? Not being able to fully express the ecstasy and pity I’d felt made me feel lousy. Most of the fiction I’d read was from Korean-language textbooks. They didn’t have any of the sentences I needed. So I started reading poetry
  • Feriohas quotedlast month
    The very reason I stopped killing was because that hope vanished
  • Feriohas quotedlast month
    The very reason I stopped killing was because that hope vanished
  • Feriohas quotedlast month
    The very reason I stopped killing was because that hope vanished
  • Sruuuhas quoted6 months ago
    “We trouble life by the care of death, and death by the care of life.”
  • Sruuuhas quoted6 months ago
    That was a mistake.
  • Sruuuhas quoted6 months ago
    So I started reading poetry.
  • pattylouis2has quoted10 months ago
    danger of living too long. People these days really do excel at coming up with amusing phrases.
  • pattylouis2has quoted10 months ago
    Eunhui has never really gotten on well with people, and instead gives all her affection to the silent plants.
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