COREENNES_SIX JOURS STACK004

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The first Korean girl descended from the heavens. A frendly.
rose, hat and rather far from the archetype (Indigenae candid i
sunt, et procerae staturae, says Mercator's Nilas), she alone
among her sisters betrayed the far-off Tunguskin origins that
the anthropologists ascribe to her ancestor, the demi-god
Tangun (332 B.C.). No doubt it was this blend of traits that fed
the Korean employment counschrs to glimpse her vocation, the
same as the Druggist's in Giraudoux's Intermeszo: she gift for.
transitions. The Far Cast lincs are guarded by young women. Olga in Omsk,
I a shepherdess of Tupolev -Macha in Chita, leading the twin.
engines out to pasture in the violet dawn of Mongolia, The last
relay, the Air Fastess, skewered us through China: congregations
of increcalous camels startled by the shadow of the flyushin,
squares of Tartar silk drying alongside the yurs, the petrified
thunder ofthe Great Wall to which a train, silent for our ears,
haid siege with its white cry Kalmuki murs contra Tartaros.
Another wall of pink and white dust, brick and mercury on the
Taedong nver, before the hridge rebuk by the Chinese
volunteers, a fisherman let his net slip berween his fingers,
grain by grain, like a mosury sof morning, cily Tolerint even
toward its cliches, Korea greeted us...