And your lover
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Book Introduction
A face made of longing, "And Your Lover"
Taejoo's language is calm and gentle.
At first glance, it may seem like a shy cheek, but it also sounds like the voice of a lover whispering softly in your ear.
Sometimes, I see eyes stained with sadness, and sometimes, I feel like I'm seeing a small, gentle smile on the lips.
As we turn each page of this book, which boasts over two hundred pages, we will experience the diverse emotions Taeju has carefully crafted and expressed in his own unique language, forming a single, nostalgic face that floats across the pages.
Tae-ju writes in the author's note page of "And Your Lover" that "out of over 1,500 monologues, I selected only those that were not screams and those that I would not be ashamed to show in front of others, and there were about 700 of them. / If you divide them fairly over about 200 pages, there are three or four sentences per page.
/ Strictly speaking, one page is made up of thirty-five percent nonsense and sixty-five percent trickery,” he explains.
Those who have revealed only thirty-five percent of their feelings toward others, whether in writing or speaking, and hidden the other sixty-five percent as if it were a blank space, will be able to read traces of Tae-ju's screams and his embarrassing and sometimes shy days in "the pages where he polished his nonsense and trickery."
"And Your Lover" is divided into three parts. Part 1, "Even if I leave on a long journey before you," allows you to feel the excitement and longing of falling in love. Part 2, "In the middle of dawn and morning," contains the sadness of looking back on past love after experiencing a breakup. Part 3, "I hope you think of me for a moment," is a collection of thoughts and feelings from experiencing love and people in life. Each subtitle succinctly contains the theme of each chapter and is combined into a single sentence.
I think that what we want from the people we love now are perhaps the most trivial and simple things, but they always require the utmost consistency.
Taejoo's language is calm and gentle.
At first glance, it may seem like a shy cheek, but it also sounds like the voice of a lover whispering softly in your ear.
Sometimes, I see eyes stained with sadness, and sometimes, I feel like I'm seeing a small, gentle smile on the lips.
As we turn each page of this book, which boasts over two hundred pages, we will experience the diverse emotions Taeju has carefully crafted and expressed in his own unique language, forming a single, nostalgic face that floats across the pages.
Tae-ju writes in the author's note page of "And Your Lover" that "out of over 1,500 monologues, I selected only those that were not screams and those that I would not be ashamed to show in front of others, and there were about 700 of them. / If you divide them fairly over about 200 pages, there are three or four sentences per page.
/ Strictly speaking, one page is made up of thirty-five percent nonsense and sixty-five percent trickery,” he explains.
Those who have revealed only thirty-five percent of their feelings toward others, whether in writing or speaking, and hidden the other sixty-five percent as if it were a blank space, will be able to read traces of Tae-ju's screams and his embarrassing and sometimes shy days in "the pages where he polished his nonsense and trickery."
"And Your Lover" is divided into three parts. Part 1, "Even if I leave on a long journey before you," allows you to feel the excitement and longing of falling in love. Part 2, "In the middle of dawn and morning," contains the sadness of looking back on past love after experiencing a breakup. Part 3, "I hope you think of me for a moment," is a collection of thoughts and feelings from experiencing love and people in life. Each subtitle succinctly contains the theme of each chapter and is combined into a single sentence.
I think that what we want from the people we love now are perhaps the most trivial and simple things, but they always require the utmost consistency.
index
Part 1 - 007
Even if I leave on a long journey before you
Part 2─ 079
In the middle of dawn and morning
Part 3 - 151
Please think of me at first glance
Ending─ 214
author
Even if I leave on a long journey before you
Part 2─ 079
In the middle of dawn and morning
Part 3 - 151
Please think of me at first glance
Ending─ 214
author
Detailed image
Into the book
It's easy to commit something in the name of love.
Because I have no doubt that the two of us will take care of the aftermath.
--- p.9
The feeling I had every time I touched you was actually far from affection.
all.
The reason I wanted to confine you in my cramped embrace, the reason I wanted to cover your eyes and ears in the name of consideration, the reason I wanted to make you believe only what I say, regardless of how close it is to the truth, the reason I wanted you, the fragile person, to have only me to rely on, the reason I wanted you to become more isolated, that's right.
If you say you're sad, you won't be punished.
In the future I draw, you are never there.
It seemed like you would leave first, or I would send you off first.
--- p.31
The new destination we are looking at is
A side dish that can be taken out and eaten without being served
Even the act of putting your hands in and messing around
If you close your eyes halfway, you will be forgiven
As much as I decided to take care of myself so that I wouldn't starve to death
It's not a bad thing to be neglectful of each other
--- p.36
This time last year I was trying so hard not to love you.
I also knew that it wouldn't work.
What we can share together is each other's things that we have never been able to properly grasp.
These were things I could have solved in the palm of my hand, and I was so hurt by it that I wanted to write a letter.
After tearing up three or five sheets of the stationery I had painstakingly purchased, I was finally able to write down my true feelings as best I could. You must have read the letter, which was still clumsy in many ways, from a place I didn't know about.
I can no longer remember or reproduce the contents of that letter, but I hope you still have that letter.
Just as we relied on each other the most, I often read your unexpected replies, as I, who still receive only the things I cannot escape from those I want to run away from, return to you.
--- p.45
Your life has been infinitely strange.
It was sad, lonely, miserable, and vicious.
Love was like that, how did life come to be?
--- p.94
When I was in elementary school, my homeroom teacher told me to write poetry if I didn't want to write a diary.
Maybe that was the beginning of my unhappiness. Not getting a palm hit even when I wrote things that weren't letters or poems. I got used to the sincere silence. I hated writing too many letters, so I kept reducing them and reducing them, and in the end, I created implications that contained nothing.
I've been forgiven for so many short sentences that I can't hold on to writing for long anymore.
I can't even think of writing it
--- p.190
Yeah, I'm scared that maybe I was the sea with its mouth wide open
Because I have no doubt that the two of us will take care of the aftermath.
--- p.9
The feeling I had every time I touched you was actually far from affection.
all.
The reason I wanted to confine you in my cramped embrace, the reason I wanted to cover your eyes and ears in the name of consideration, the reason I wanted to make you believe only what I say, regardless of how close it is to the truth, the reason I wanted you, the fragile person, to have only me to rely on, the reason I wanted you to become more isolated, that's right.
If you say you're sad, you won't be punished.
In the future I draw, you are never there.
It seemed like you would leave first, or I would send you off first.
--- p.31
The new destination we are looking at is
A side dish that can be taken out and eaten without being served
Even the act of putting your hands in and messing around
If you close your eyes halfway, you will be forgiven
As much as I decided to take care of myself so that I wouldn't starve to death
It's not a bad thing to be neglectful of each other
--- p.36
This time last year I was trying so hard not to love you.
I also knew that it wouldn't work.
What we can share together is each other's things that we have never been able to properly grasp.
These were things I could have solved in the palm of my hand, and I was so hurt by it that I wanted to write a letter.
After tearing up three or five sheets of the stationery I had painstakingly purchased, I was finally able to write down my true feelings as best I could. You must have read the letter, which was still clumsy in many ways, from a place I didn't know about.
I can no longer remember or reproduce the contents of that letter, but I hope you still have that letter.
Just as we relied on each other the most, I often read your unexpected replies, as I, who still receive only the things I cannot escape from those I want to run away from, return to you.
--- p.45
Your life has been infinitely strange.
It was sad, lonely, miserable, and vicious.
Love was like that, how did life come to be?
--- p.94
When I was in elementary school, my homeroom teacher told me to write poetry if I didn't want to write a diary.
Maybe that was the beginning of my unhappiness. Not getting a palm hit even when I wrote things that weren't letters or poems. I got used to the sincere silence. I hated writing too many letters, so I kept reducing them and reducing them, and in the end, I created implications that contained nothing.
I've been forgiven for so many short sentences that I can't hold on to writing for long anymore.
I can't even think of writing it
--- p.190
Yeah, I'm scared that maybe I was the sea with its mouth wide open
--- p.200
Publisher's Review
My song, 'And Your Lover', where I just wanted to be your 'you'
Among the countless people who come and go from our side for a long or short time in life, we often fall in love with some people.
Many things in life don't always go according to plan or schedule, no matter how much preparation is made. But among them, is there anything more beyond our control than falling in love?
?
I think there are some things that can't be helped
Between you and me
Even though you're so cruel, I can't help but hang around you.
_25p middle
"And Your Lover" meekly acknowledges and calmly accepts the irresistible force of this love.
Force majeure is literally an act of God.
“I wish that a kind and clever person would suddenly and unannouncedly enter my life one day” (p. 166), but “I try to be careful so that I don’t cry alone in places where I think of someone / so that I don’t love anyone too much” (p. 174), but there is nothing I can do about it.
Those who have fallen in love and struggled to come to their senses from the unfamiliar and intense emotions they have never felt before, or spent the night crying so hard that their chests were about to break because of the pain and sorrow, those who have realized at every moment that there is nothing they can control will probably have no choice but to accept something close to resignation.
“Even though I know it’s fake, I swallow it” (p. 123) In the face of this ecstatic and cruel love, all I can do is embrace my true feelings for you and let the days that seem like they will last forever pass by without a trace.
During those long, sleepless nights and early mornings, all kinds of words filled the lonely room.
Words I wanted to tell you but buried because I missed the timing, words I thought I would be able to tell you someday but never got the chance to, countless words I was so embarrassed and embarrassed that I couldn't even bring myself to say them.
“I’ve cried enough, so now I need to crouch down again and tighten the loose screws one by one” (p. 172).
And your lover, too, may be describing you with the exact same words as you.
“Because the whispers cannot reach anyone’s ears” (p. 174) “I can’t even imagine the time when we were one body, like a piece of a cut fruit” (p. 69) The room that was filled overnight with words that I could not say to him or he could not say to me in words.
Through this book, we will be able to get a glimpse of the scenery of that room.
We ourselves
You always have to be on guard against being too sad or tired.
It's like saying that everything will be okay after you take a nap.
This only applies to people who are healthy in body and mind.
_212p 中
“I love someone who doesn’t bring an umbrella even when he knows it’s going to rain.” (p. 91) I dare to guess that the ‘loneliness’ that nurtured this strange desire may have a longer history than the love that Taeju sings about in this book.
How wonderful it would be if the human mind could be read like a book. That would probably be nearly impossible.
Reading your lover is like reading a book.
Nevertheless, you can read about my, our, and your lover in this book.
■ Author's Note
Of the over 1,500 monologues, I selected only those that weren't screams and weren't embarrassing to share in front of others, and there were about 700 of them. If I divide them evenly across about 200 pages, each page would only contain three or four sentences.
If you really think about it, a single page is thirty-five percent nonsense and sixty-five percent trickery.
I have more things I can't say than I can say, so I sit here late at night piecing together sentences like these, but I can easily hope that you and I, and the countless other loves that have passed through us or passed through us, can have lukewarm, sweet dreams every night.
I mean, good night.
I hope you like the way I remember and love you.
Taeju, November 2018
Among the countless people who come and go from our side for a long or short time in life, we often fall in love with some people.
Many things in life don't always go according to plan or schedule, no matter how much preparation is made. But among them, is there anything more beyond our control than falling in love?
?
I think there are some things that can't be helped
Between you and me
Even though you're so cruel, I can't help but hang around you.
_25p middle
"And Your Lover" meekly acknowledges and calmly accepts the irresistible force of this love.
Force majeure is literally an act of God.
“I wish that a kind and clever person would suddenly and unannouncedly enter my life one day” (p. 166), but “I try to be careful so that I don’t cry alone in places where I think of someone / so that I don’t love anyone too much” (p. 174), but there is nothing I can do about it.
Those who have fallen in love and struggled to come to their senses from the unfamiliar and intense emotions they have never felt before, or spent the night crying so hard that their chests were about to break because of the pain and sorrow, those who have realized at every moment that there is nothing they can control will probably have no choice but to accept something close to resignation.
“Even though I know it’s fake, I swallow it” (p. 123) In the face of this ecstatic and cruel love, all I can do is embrace my true feelings for you and let the days that seem like they will last forever pass by without a trace.
During those long, sleepless nights and early mornings, all kinds of words filled the lonely room.
Words I wanted to tell you but buried because I missed the timing, words I thought I would be able to tell you someday but never got the chance to, countless words I was so embarrassed and embarrassed that I couldn't even bring myself to say them.
“I’ve cried enough, so now I need to crouch down again and tighten the loose screws one by one” (p. 172).
And your lover, too, may be describing you with the exact same words as you.
“Because the whispers cannot reach anyone’s ears” (p. 174) “I can’t even imagine the time when we were one body, like a piece of a cut fruit” (p. 69) The room that was filled overnight with words that I could not say to him or he could not say to me in words.
Through this book, we will be able to get a glimpse of the scenery of that room.
We ourselves
You always have to be on guard against being too sad or tired.
It's like saying that everything will be okay after you take a nap.
This only applies to people who are healthy in body and mind.
_212p 中
“I love someone who doesn’t bring an umbrella even when he knows it’s going to rain.” (p. 91) I dare to guess that the ‘loneliness’ that nurtured this strange desire may have a longer history than the love that Taeju sings about in this book.
How wonderful it would be if the human mind could be read like a book. That would probably be nearly impossible.
Reading your lover is like reading a book.
Nevertheless, you can read about my, our, and your lover in this book.
■ Author's Note
Of the over 1,500 monologues, I selected only those that weren't screams and weren't embarrassing to share in front of others, and there were about 700 of them. If I divide them evenly across about 200 pages, each page would only contain three or four sentences.
If you really think about it, a single page is thirty-five percent nonsense and sixty-five percent trickery.
I have more things I can't say than I can say, so I sit here late at night piecing together sentences like these, but I can easily hope that you and I, and the countless other loves that have passed through us or passed through us, can have lukewarm, sweet dreams every night.
I mean, good night.
I hope you like the way I remember and love you.
Taeju, November 2018
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of publication: December 10, 2018
- Page count, weight, size: 216 pages | 130*190*20mm
- ISBN13: 9791196201036
- ISBN10: 119620103X
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