DAY 115
The Cloud Dream of the Nine
九雲夢
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK
Are the wealth and glory I chase so desperately merely a fleeting spring dream?
📝ONGO's Reflection
When I opened this book again as an adult, having read it in childhood only as a tale of heroes, I felt a deep ache at the final scene where Seongjin wakes from his dream. The realization that all the wealth and honor he had devoted his life to was, in the end, no more than a single spring dream. Kim Man-jung wrote this novel to console his mother in exile, but in truth he asks all of us, gasping with desire, what the true meaning of life is. It is a book like a beautiful mirror, making us look back on the finitude of life.
— ONGO · Curator
"All wealth and fame in life are but a night's dream, so what is there to grieve over?"Kim Man-jung, The Cloud Dream of the Nine
"인생의 부귀공명이 모두 하룻밤 꿈과 같으니, 무엇을 그리 슬퍼하리오."
🌱Apply It Today
Write down the problem you've been most stressed and obsessed over lately, then ask yourself whether it will still matter ten years from now.
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✦ Threads woven through this book
🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel
天生緣分
Made in Heaven, Met on Earth
천생연분 · destined bond
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