My good friend USAfarmgirl posted this on another site I used to frequent. I’m posting my response to her, with additional comments. Dear USAfarmgirl, I hope you don’t mind if I copied your post and transferred it over here. More and more, I ignore posts on soompi. Many posters either bloviate like cows or argue […]
The Great Seducer: Episode 8
We all know that this kdrama was adapted from an 18th century French novel entitled Les Liaisons Dangereuses. The title meant that the two main leads in the novel, or the counterparts of SooJi and ShiHyun, were playing a deadly game. Their revenge, their games, and their wager to make others fall in love with them […]
The Great Seducer: Flower Power
Don’t you just hate poetry? I just wish the writer spoke his fucking mind instead of confusing me with all these imageries, hints, innuendos, and circumlocution. However, since we’re sassy bitches over here and we’d like to know the relevance of this poem to the story, I’m interpreting this for the team. If you have […]
The Great Seducer: First Impressions
March 20 was supposed to have been the first day of spring here where I live, but we were clobbered by a snowstorm yesterday. Just a couple of days ago, crocuses, grape hyacinths, snowdrops and a handful of daffodils were gaily blooming in our front lawn. Now they’re all buried under a foot of snow. […]