Allegory of Survival: The Theater of Kang-baek Lee (Hardcover) By ...

B & C: Yes, that's what'll happen. That's for sure. Oh, I'm happy!

A: (He stares at them for awhile.) It's all fucked up.

D: (He complains to A.) What is it that's all fucked up? Could it be that you alone plan to disclose the fact in front of the others that we paid for our passage?

A: How could I do something like that? It's just that after having paid so much money, now I have to beg, saying I didn't pay him a cent…

B: But, that's the only way we can survive.

C: Goodbye my fish, seaweed, and the pretty eyes of a whale. It's too bad that I won't get a chance to see them. But, I must survive first.

D: (He pats A'S shoulders to give him encouragement.) Well, let's forget the fact that it will be cold in the water.

A: (He shakes his head with a look of depression.) If only it were possible to forget. I can't forget anything.

D: Even things from a long time ago?

A: A long time ago doesn't exist anymore. All we have is now. So I can't forget details that are trifling, like fingernails. Even the fact that my wife died. Although I do think it was a good thing that she died …

D: I'm so sorry. When did it happen?

A: It was three days after the military coup. There were at least three platoons, and they smashed into my house with horns on their foreheads so you can just imagine what could have happened to the house.

B: Did you have a hole in the door?

D: (To B.) He said people died, didn't he? (To A.) SO, what happened?

A: My wife died of a deep wound from a horn, but I escaped.

B: YOU see. He escaped through the hole in the door.

D: (He becomes sympathetic towards A.) Why did it happen to you?

A: I paid off the government people, but others must have smelled the money.