Flamenco in emails 14

VI. Epilogue

 

 

 ...bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life

 becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

                                 -Bertrand Russell-

 

 

Gohk used to mutter : No art without intoxication.

These days it seems that he revolves in his mind

 some other abstract meditation beyond the subject of art.

He likes to take a line, as above, from Bertrant Russell .

And he sometimes gets absorbed in a religious question:

to go to church or not to go.

Gohk tried in vain to find out a way to follow his wife,

a true Christian.

 

In an email sent by him on a railroad trip to Siberia ,

he referred to a Russian tribe's epigram. He said 

he had read this epigram in  a book titled 'East of The Sun :

it is only upon Baikal in Autumn

that a man learns to pray from his heart,

 

When Gohk was pondering over something to write,

he would like to listen to flamenco cante, if possible,

the siguiriya cante of Manolo Caracol and Cello Sonata

of S.Bach .Once He said ," It is because both of them

kill my inner pain."

 

Gohk is thought to get conscious of a pain 

alive in his heart. According to him,

he has lived with the pain, a half of which was caused 

 by himself ,the other half  by his late father he loved. 

Once He said to me that the pain is something 

for him never to get free of. 

He seems to acknowledge well 

that his pain is what he should keep to himself,

sharing with nobody.

So he just wants to get it  forgotten

through his own way- 

subduing an impulse to go to alien lands

beyond the sea line

or to write.

 

Praying for Gohk's recovery soon,

 In Seoul, South Korea

 Joon

 August, 2009

 

 

* For 6 years or so This manuscript has been put among books

in my study .Gohk in poor healthy got less interested in Flamenco

and hesitated to have it published . So did I.  As for me,

to tell the truth, I was afraid to see the book published,

because I did not like the Manuscript in English I finished .

Anyway  it was in my study unpublished. I apolozise him for it.

As his translator, I should have had it published earlier,

well done or not. 

 

January, 2015

Joon 

 

Bibliography

 

1. Andalucia, Michael Jacobs, Pallas Athene, London 1998

2. Aprende y practica, Las Palmas, Madrid, 2007

3. The art of Flamenco , D. E. Pohren , Society of Spanish Studies, Madrid,1967

4. The Art of the Personal Essay, Phillip Lopate, Anchor Books. NY.1994

5. East of the Sun,Benson Bobrick, Poseidon Press, NY, 1992

6. Flamenco ,Claus Schreiner, Amadeus,Press, Portland OR. 1996

7. Guide to Andalusian Flamenco , Manual Macias, Junta de Andalusia  Andaluz. 2003

8. Gypsy Cante, Will Kirkland, City Light Books ,Sanfrancisco CA ,1999

9.! Flamenco!, Gwynne Edwards, Thames & Hudson, London, 2000

10. Journey and Deep Song, Joon H. Kim Kyungnam Press, Masan, South Korea 2002( in Lorean)

11. Song of the Outcasts, Robin Totlon, Amadeus, Press, Portland OR, 2003

 

 

-the end-

 

*About the writer.

 

Joon H. kim, 71 years old.

Korean-born personal essay writer.

Translator( English-Korean).

Born  in Masan, South Korea.

Ph,d in politics.

His books in Korean:

Modern and Primitive Art ( translation),

Cafe Society (  translation),

Changdong in Blue ( art )

Flamenco Story (flamenco)

Well of the past ( essay),

Deep Song ( essay on travel )