Minsuk Kang 강민석

I’m hesitant to cite Ernest Hemingway (because, Hemingway), but in A Moveable Feast he wrote about knowing when to stop writing each day so that his subconscious could take over, and he would refill, like a well. For me, refilling often means biking around Central Park.

if you admire two kinds of work equally, but one is more prestigious, you should probably choose the other. Your opinions about what's admirable are always going to be slightly influenced by prestige, so if the two seem equal to you, you probably have more genuine admiration for the less prestigious one.

Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the

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