Issue 02
A Clearing in a Wide Oval Bowl 김효리 Hyo Rhi Kim *In conversation with Esch in Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. I use language from the chapter “The Eighth Day” in the book.* Back then, we finished watching Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. A romantic comedy (though I found the movie lacked wit and cleverness to be considered comedy) about not seeking a friend for the end of the world. (I mean, the protagonists were kind of obsessed with romantic love rather than friendship, not that friendship needs to exclude romantic love, but I digress.) I went on a rant on why the plot was dissatisfactory and why I thought the ending was dumb. Spoiler alert: The woman, who through the whole duration of the movie desperately tries to get to her parents to see them one last time, ditches the one opportunity to do that (an opportunity only made possible by the man in love with her) in order to die with the “love of her life” she just met. “I would rather die alone, out in a field, (I might as well be naked) thinking of all the ones I have loved (and God, lichen, time, and all the things I won’t tell you) rather than one person I was temporarily fixated on. That person might not even be ‘the one,’ once the hormones have calmed down.” “You are definitely weird.”
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