4/28
i’m thankful to have been walking through a bus station near gangnam to meet JK for lunch and, rounding a corner, to have seen a group of people stopped in place in the middle of the walkway, staring openmouthed up at a television where two old men in suits were shaking hands
i’m thankful for the hope of the moment, and for the feeling that i was standing in the middle of history as it happened, which was powerful, but i’m also thankful, as i witness the easy social media triumphalism about it from various commentators, for this story that JK wrote when we were in grad school, a dark fable about reunion, which explores her feelings about how inadequate hope might be to scarring the gash in between the two koreas:
i’m thankful for hope and i’m thankful also for doubt.
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