Sublime

I can tell you now that this was my first meeting of Samir, who called himself the Seller of Dreams. But I came to know him as an unserious man, a liar, and a thief. That is why I killed him.

rhapsodizing

indelible

Despite knowing better, we all had to follow the ludicrous Juche system. If your farm didn’t meet its target harvest, the farm manager fudged the account to make it look as if the target had actually been met. But despite all the fairy-tale record keeping, the supply didn’t lie: the food ration distributed every autumn was growing smaller and small

Kim Chan-bon character and Kim Il-sung had been brothers-in-arms. Kim Chan-bon had become a powerful figure in the party and the author of some major military innovations. Everyone around me kept dwelling on that, but it still didn’t explain what he was doing in our village with his merry band of men.

On September 12, 2013, I reported Avomeen’s results in an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died,” which was published on The New Yorker website.