Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever—and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and “forgotten” even in its own time.
—I.F. Stone, The Hidden History of the Korean War (Monthly Review Press, 2023)
People who absolutely do not want another proxy war are living, here and now, on the Korean Peninsula.
—Han Kang, ‘While the US Talks of War, South Korea Shudders’ (tr. Deborah Smith, 7 Oct. 2017)
We are severed in Two by an abstract enemy an invisible enemy under the title of liberators who have conveniently named the severance, Civil War.
―Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (1982)
A war in which one side was entirely equipped and paid by a foreign power—which dictated the nature of the local regime in its own interest—was not a civil war. To say that we had “interfered” in what is “really a civil war,” as most American academic writers and even liberal critics of the war do to this day, simply screened a more painful reality […] it was a war of foreign aggression, American aggression.
—Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002)
[T]he inhumanity of US military policy during the Korean War—three years of carpet bombing, the use of napalm, calls for nuclear evisceration and biological warfare.
— Geoffrey Robertson QC; cited in Michael Pembroke, Korea: Where the American Century Began (2017)
When US forces entered Korea in 1945, they dispersed the local popular government, consisting primarily of antifascists who resisted the Japanese, and inaugurated a brutal repression, using Japanese fascist police and Koreans who had collaborated with them during the Japanese occupation. About 100,000 people were murdered in South Korea prior to what we call the Korean War, including 30-40,000 killed during the suppression of a peasant revolt in one small region, Cheju Island.
― Noam Chomsky, ‘Restoring the Traditional Order’ (1992)
i. fossilized cat-eye
wombat snarlin’..
belch: of an ensneer’d-farthing; crawlin’.
‘bloeckh’-faust’s bout as comical as kamikaze (amid yelps n’ moans..—)—
fossilized cat-eye, incensed at the sky;
constrain’d to sway: straight ahead, towards you-or-ay—
dis-infect the ointment, then disinfect da skies, hidehey.
(naw, come on: ensnarl meh.)
ii. staphyloccocus pontificates
sp[l]utter
our ‘argh’-insidiot antipope stinks
– livid leery-eyed leprochaun asks ‘waht 4’;
i.e., “Korea’s imp’s manufactured ‘forever war’—or, ‘civil war + foreordained'”?
HARDIE HAR HAR on dat score.
hiss story [f]art or hogwash = UXO.
Ensnout—prattlin’ quasi-preternatural pretas prater to perfect ya.
argh … (goblin-esque .)
iii. ‘huzza’ (hydra–)
whoa manufactured ‘forever war’ in Korea (of the ‘civil’ variety, at any rate..).
such & such stock-talk paid n’ pays: for so & so’s mandolin lessons, et cetera—on the backs of our dead…
(‘twaz as legit a profession as any, K?’)
(i.e., machtpolitik‘s bottomless depths-of-depravity render lautréamont’s les chants de maldoror thoroughly superfluous.)
nabokov’s céline’s knut hamson, et al.
i.e., nab, dat know-it-all ‘litterateur’—more-than-winked-at ‘the Vietnam war’, after all.
oh yes, & selfsame period, nab’s declaimin’ that dostoyevsky’s oeuvre was valueless (uh.. aside from The Double [1846]);
needless to state, ensuing reverberations to that one (in dah ‘us literary scene’) wert and have been & wilt doubtless continue to be : sine qua non. (i.e., ‘ruminate, ruminate, then ruminate a lot lot more’…) (‘caw … caw’–)
nab forged a kinda livin’ playin’ dah p[r]etty maven (w. perks n’ benefits n’ good times, a-plenty);
i.e., milked ‘is encaged/anaesthetized cow as far
as humanly plausible;
hawked as hawkers do.
(‘had something to say, at any rate..’)
(‘caw … caw’–)
‘What y’all characterize as literary merit’s supposedly presupposed by a modicum of national stability—’ (‘anyways..’)
(‘caw … caw’–)
‘ey Nab: plastick-caskets wert not provided
for such-as-us, & ours—
iv. hemo-goblin
hemo-goblin’s lookin’-gooky as of now, hidehey. ‘CONK’
beagle-eyed buzzards prattle preternatural-like (–after pretas) ‘BOING’
endlessly fascinatin’ : UXO + drones for a funeral, et cetera.
twaz SPLAT-a-tat-tat as opposed to RAT (‘ey Nab… jest how do ya square… THAT?)
surely twasn’t ‘constitutional‘
+ 3 whoas for ‘k. war’ — foreordained dialectical trouble to no good end !
(‘whoops’) scissors kollapse(d): n-omen of Bloom–;
(‘aw, shucks’) flickering eye-bale gropes for the store—
(‘yowzers’) Performer’s obliged to get actually
emotional at the umpteenth iteration of—
v. ‘Gonk’ ([v]existence)
gimmie ping-pong tournaments absent the gore
gimmie silence absolute as love
– cuz it reeks & it shrieks, unfunny
wingless gnats atop slime, meows for beantime
nematoad-insensate’s once more itchin’ to beget ya
(his source-of-income is as credible as any)
whoa, Monsieur ‘Cackles-A-Lot’: plops-a-lot
(vis-à-vis rapalm, bw, n whatnot.—)
Notwit’standing, thy ‘intractable difficulty’ hoss ruh-ruh-ruhmains, as such:
‘Faith traditions’ apparently converge, are consonant on, a single & rather frightful point –
no matter how badly-or-madly we would wish it otherwise… :
nothing can really die.
Eternity is said to keep a strict account..
hardie har har
whoa craven nabokov’s been pilloried by a ghoul, as of today !
‘ehm… nabokov’s dostoyevsky’s dialectical inverse, at best—that is to say, his .. uhm .. double—’
‘no, one cannot even subscribe to that, dear one;
were you aware nab proffered active, vigorous support vis-à-vis the unsupportable?’
‘sure enough, nab’s backing of what the west likes to call “the Vietnam war” was buffoonish, craven, fascist, self-interested, sick… seriously, how can you sell out an entire people—each and every one of whom are immeasurably more interesting and better than you—how indeed can you sell out to be “crucified”…—solely on the grounds of their goodness, decency, kindness, moral superiority, it would appear—again, ‘envy’ is a singular force (for world-historical ill, particularly vis-à-vis [but by no means limited to]: self-oriented ‘litterateurs’—)… Nab, how can you, and deem yourself, still, an…. ‘artist of importance’?
—Now shoo; & may the inferno ya decisively-&-unconscionably-more-than-winked-at in Southeast Asia come back to more-than-haunt (in perpetuum).
vi. on the proliferation of turncoat-ism
taser’d elephant (‘CONK’).
huzza; dialectically-sound trouble to no good end, again n’ again n’ again !
“existence itself’s ‘the court jester’;
existents: but pawns in an ‘ineffable game’, veritable friend—”.
“Escape, & escape alone, multifarious wisdom traditions attest:
was/is to be the ‘primary, or core, or even only: Objective—'”..
(‘may Imp’s pal Nab be begotten-n’-begotten again, then; [deep breath:] again n’ again n’ again n’ again n’ again, then—’)
“But, again, in view of the actuality that nothing, really, can die—
jest ‘how to escape’ ruh-ruh-r’mains:
the Question of Questions.”