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Out on a January walk in Berlin, the unnamed Korean narrator falls into a river. As she struggles to breathe, her experience gives way to both "conventional memories" of what has led her to this icy trap dovetailed with tenuous endeavors to comprehend and explicate a "[g]reater music…a greater universe…a greater distance from the present location." She's returned from Seoul to house- and dog-sit for a sort-of lover, which sparks detailed flashbacks...Log In or Sign Up to Read More