“Zia had shampoo in her hair. She closed her eyes. Soon she recalled the man standing at the counter for check-in. He had South American brown skin, glasses with red stains, and was about 38 years old. The color of the clothes was unique, she remembered easily.”
“Zia recalled the scene in the movie as she showered in this secluded motel. It was Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” But she was not afraid. Because there was no shower curtain that covered the view like a movie.”
“It was a place she had never been to. By midnight, Zia had decided to stay where the 1980s hotel sign hung. There was no man more than a streetlight of tungsten light.”
“Three years ago, Zia had visited Yasukuni Shrine. It was a shrine that gathered the souls of the war criminals. Inside, the souls of the colonial Koreans were also forcibly sealed. The monk ‘Victor’ was staying at the shrine to unseal it.”
“That night, Dr. Lambert was photographed in Cheongsalmo. Hiroshi handed the camera to Song-hee. Dr. Lambert, a yellow-haired Japanese, betrayed his native America. He was a yakuza spy in the United States.”
“Dr. Lambert was the main role in northeast Asia’s historical distortions. His research was supported by Japanese criminal enterprises. Historical distortion was the erasing of Auschwitz’s Jewish history.”
“The underworld was their haven. It was a deep ground where radioactivity was out of reach. A huge mirror film reflecting the sun led the darkness into the light. There was Joy’s mother in the frontier.”
“Humans were dusty beings in space. Humans were smaller than dust on Earth. Humans were nano dust in Asia. Human beings were ramen soup in South Korea.”
“Joy explained to him. This place said no one could come. It was an icy world on earth, but the underworld was warm. Joy habitually drove the boat. By the time we arrived, Blackie was very wary of Hiroshi.”
“The two generations of trouble were connected. The moon carefully illuminated them. We lost arms and legs in the war, but we filled each other’s lack. The moon was important to the earth.”
