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The essential chutzpah

by Maud | September 29th, 2009

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona.” Jim Shepard quotes Oscar Wilde in a piece on using real life in fiction.

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The Begats

koreamjournal:

A Korean name can provide its bearer with a link to ancestors going back thousands of years…. Each Korean name contains a wealth of history that links an individual to ancestors thousands of years in the past. I notice that even today these honored genealogies, catalogued in a book called the jokbo, continue to poke their way into the life of nearly every Korean.

Yet although nearly every Korean family is proud of this book and talks of this book, when I ask, “Do you know what’s in it?” they shake their heads.

Read more at iamkoream.com.

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