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Caught the tail end of a dream in which a bunch of other stuff was happening, but in this fragment I was sharing a house with a bunch of guys and one woman who lived in the basement apartment. We were all in the kitchen with the sun shining in and I was hurrying to get dinner ready for Jenny, my fat old grey cat (decidit 1995) who was winding about my ankles, yowling. One of the guys started to piss on the pile of plastic bags that were piling up in a corner in plastic bag fashion, and I yelled at him because that was the door to the basement apartment where the other woman lived. Idea was that he didn't feel like going upstairs to the bathroom to take a leak. I took Jenny's dinner around the corner and the other woman came up into the kitchen but her two little black kittens came with her. They found the food and started either playing with it or eating it while Jenny looked on in puzzlement. And then I had to hurry off to the other part of the dream, which is on the tip of my memory but won't come out unless I stumble on the right word that will bring it all back, something that only occasionally happens.
Cold today so stayed inside and finished The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur, set in Joseon Korea. I don't have the wherewithal to watch Kdramas, so this is the next best thing. Also reminds me of that work about Korean shamans from ten years back. I'm all for shamans, especially if you live in a buttoned-down repressive Confucianist country. I now have holds on her two other books. Though I could really have done without her including Jesus in the acknowledgements. My cradle (French- important!) Catholic's attitude is that Christianity is an excellent cover for organizing against Japanese occupiers but there's no need to keep on with it afterwards: and if you must, mon dieu, do not make it evangelical. Though for all I know, the factors that made shamanism agreeable to Confucianist Koreans is what makes evangelical Christianity agreeable to modern day Koreans. Am reminded of a friend's friend who converted to Catholicism from Buddhism because, he said, he wanted a God who was personally interested in him, and no eastern religion gives you that.
Cold today so stayed inside and finished The Forest of Stolen Girls by June Hur, set in Joseon Korea. I don't have the wherewithal to watch Kdramas, so this is the next best thing. Also reminds me of that work about Korean shamans from ten years back. I'm all for shamans, especially if you live in a buttoned-down repressive Confucianist country. I now have holds on her two other books. Though I could really have done without her including Jesus in the acknowledgements. My cradle (French- important!) Catholic's attitude is that Christianity is an excellent cover for organizing against Japanese occupiers but there's no need to keep on with it afterwards: and if you must, mon dieu, do not make it evangelical. Though for all I know, the factors that made shamanism agreeable to Confucianist Koreans is what makes evangelical Christianity agreeable to modern day Koreans. Am reminded of a friend's friend who converted to Catholicism from Buddhism because, he said, he wanted a God who was personally interested in him, and no eastern religion gives you that.