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You see, earlier in the evening I had bemoaned to my besties that only two of the 50 prospective informants I had emailed responded to me. After six months of pre-fieldwork training between hours of methodology masterclasses and dozens of guidebooks, I had crafted what I anticipated to be my golden ticket into the field of social media Influencers in Singapore.
Young scholars like myself are constantly being told to establish the visibility of our portfolios in order to secure academic jobs that are increasingly competitive, scarce, and precarious. We learn to package and pitch productive and pristine versions of ourselves. Yet, for all my theoretical and practical training on visibilizing the self, I soon learnt that such visibility politics, in which academics aim for maximum self-celebratory exposure, did not lend itself well to my ethnographic research into the even more competitive attention economy of social media Influencers. Simply put, the value of my academic social capital did not transpose into their microcelebrity community, and my visibility as an emerging scholar was not easily deciphered through their established cultural vocabulary of celebrity.
Like the Goldilocks of digital ethnographers, I had to be visible towards and among my informants, but not too little and not too much. In navigating these spectrums of conspicuousness, I had to glide along the gradient of low to high visibilities, and hop across them as required by circumstances. All this footing work was akin to wax globules in a lava lamp, alternating in existence as heated liquids and cooled solids, always in motion and constantly wandering somewhere between here and there.
I love books about/that feature food. They are also slightly torturous because food and that makes me hungry. And this book had me serious hungry for Mexican flavours and culinary delights. Of course, what sits so beautifully alongside this story of passion for food and the love that goes into their cooking is a heartbreaking story of belonging.
The romance between Xander and Pen is what I am going to describe as slow burn. But my gosh, do they understand and support each other, which is so incredibly sweet. Together, and with their community, they must stand up against horrible racial discrimination and exploitation.
When I was a beginner at English, I thought that "Somewhere" or "where" are used for real or physical places only (e.g. This is the city where I born) but after some time, I realized that it can also be used for unreal places (e.g. I was in a situation where I had to run away) and a good example would be your sentence too.
We often speak of numbers as if they were on a physical scale, like a ruler or yardstick. In that sentence, a range of time, a duration, is being expressed spatially, and so you find the phrase somewhere between, which means at some location that is found between those two (temporal) points.
P.S. I don't mean to imply that the speaker visualizes a ruler, but that we easily transpose time into the linear. We speak of timelines and say things like "It happened at some point between last Thursday evening and now".
By the way, all of these terms are derived from 2's ordinal number.The unit of time is the result of a "second" division of an hour into 60 parts. An hour consists of 60 minutes. A minute consists of 60 seconds.
The clouds broke up and the sun appeared as Linnea and I loaded our bikes. In the traditional bikepacking manner we had frame bags, handlebar harnesses and my newly acquired Revelate Designs Nano Pannier bags. Heaviest gear in the middle, packraft on the harness with spare clothes, tent and sleeping equipment in the back. Food was stored in the panniers, two four-piece Aquabound paddles strapped to my OMM bike rack with our two drysuits in a rucksack on my back.
Before long we reached the bridge at Uvbergsbron and stage one of our journey was complete. The day was waning but we both felt it would be a good idea to get on the water that evening. It would give us a feel for what was to come and with a bit of luck we could make it to the newly built hut at Eskils. The forecast was for minus five celsius that night and so an enclosed cabin would be a luxury.
The river was high with the water flowing fast. The spring melt was doing its job. Linnea shot off downstream with me in quick pursuit. On this fast lumpy section, the rapids spoke to us, their splashes and waves egged us on. We whizzed downstream whooping and shouting as we navigated the waters. My wahoo, still recording and fixed to my handlebars, was showing seven km per hour. This was what we came to do. It was exhilarating, but as the bends in the river got sharper, the water deeper, we slowed down. We drew breath, relaxed and drank it all in. Silence was upon us.
The light was fading as the old vindskydd (three-sided shelter) of Eskils Koja appeared through the trees. We could have stopped here but we took a gamble and went searching for the five stars of the newly built hut. It never appeared. With the light fading we made do in a small meadow between the river banks and the thick forest and set up camp.
We woke early the following morning with the sunlight splitting through the trees revealing how cold it had gotten the night before. A thick layer of frost covered our bikes and drysuits. All the puddles of water in our boats and equipment were now frozen solid.
We had our plan made out for the day. Twenty kilometers needed to be paddled to get to the take out point at a wooden suspension bridge. Judging by the speeds we had been achieving the evening before I was more worried about arriving too early as opposed to not making it.
Portage after portage slowed us. In a race against the clock we were losing. Twenty kilometers began feeling like a very long day. As the banks of the river got steeper the portages got harder. I used a kayaking tow rope to help haul the boats up the sides before using it again to lower down back onto the river after the fallen tree had been passed. Where we could, we fought our way through the branches, climbed over the trunk of the trees or did the limbo to save our energy. Anything to make progress.
With the new day brought the next part of the adventure. We transformed back into cyclists, assembling our bikes, got all our equipment loaded on and headed off. Crossing the suspension bridge marked the end of our river section and the final kilometers of our journey. Our trail began not much wider than our handlebars but gradually expanded as we rolled ever closer to civilization. All too soon it was over. We share a hug to symbolize our victory before heading back to Stockholm to our eagerly waiting kids and whatever obstacles life had in store for us.
The Han Kang I know is a true artist. Someone for whom issues of art, humanity, and the beauty of the world and of people are more pressing and real than awards. Someone who feels and empathizes with the pain of others, who ponders over a question she is asked for days. Someone haunted by history, someone private, fiercely compassionate and as uncompromising as the books she writes.
Han Kang: With The White Book, I originally intended to make a book out of fragments. I started with a list of white things then gave each of those white things a title, and intended to make small fragments out of those. Some of those fragments were a few pages long, and others, a few lines. As a result, it stands at the border between poetry and fiction.
KL: Beauty and suffering are often companions in your work. There seems to be suffering, dying, destruction, and birth, that can potentially lead to regeneration that run throughout. There is never a simple pain, or happiness, or beauty. Can you talk about what this relationship is, for you?
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Krys Lee is the author of the short story collection Drifting House and the recent debut novel How I Became a North Korean, both published by Viking, Penguin Random House. She is a recipient of the Rome Prize and the Story Prize Spotlight Award, the Honor Title in Adult Fiction Literature from the Asian/Pacific American Libraries Association, and finalist for Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the BBC International Story Prize. Her fiction, journalism, and literary translations have appeared in Granta, The Kenyon Review, Narrative, San Francisco Chronicle, Corriere della Sera, and The Guardian, among others. She is an assistant professor of creative writing and literature at Yonsei University, Underwood International College, in South Korea.
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We're in the endgame now, Fortbyte-wise. There are now 84 Fortbytes available in Season 9 of Fortnite: Battle Royale, and while there will be 100 in total, we've all got our eyes on one target: 90. That's when we can complete the Utopia challenge and unlock the Singularity Skin, a green-tinged warrior that by all accounts looks like the mecha pilot that will drive our giant robot against the monster currently swimming around somewhere off the coast of the island. But that's then, and this is now. Read on for a map, guide and location for Fortbyte #18: found somewhere between Mega Mall and Dusty Divot.
There isn't a whole lot of territory to cover between these two points of interest, but what is there is fairly dense with both people trying to kill you and stuff going on, so things can get a bit hairy quickly. You're looking for a small shack just west of the slipstream station. Here's where you're dropping:
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