Thirteen Specimens
“I may be a monk, but I'm also a man.
– From the Mask Play of Hahoe Byeolsin Exorcism 1: The Inn The first examples of Korean masks that Brian Ford saw were miniature brown faces, contorted into exaggerated expressions, presented in a frame on a wall of the reception area of the little inn in the Jung-gu section of Seoul.
Initially, he glimpsed the display more or less peripherally as he booked himself in at the front desk. He had been picked up in a van by the owner of the inn – w...hich was referred to in the pamphlet he had been given as a “guest house”. A worker in a downtown tourist information station, responding gently to the Westerner’s obvious breathless befuddlement, had given him the pamphlet – suggesting the guest house to him for its low cost – and had even gone so far as to call the place for him. By Korean won, which he had traded his American dollars for at a currency exchange booth in Incheon International Airport, he figured the cost to be less than $40 a night.MoreLess
– From the Mask Play of Hahoe Byeolsin Exorcism 1: The Inn The first examples of Korean masks that Brian Ford saw were miniature brown faces, contorted into exaggerated expressions, presented in a frame on a wall of the reception area of the little inn in the Jung-gu section of Seoul.
Initially, he glimpsed the display more or less peripherally as he booked himself in at the front desk. He had been picked up in a van by the owner of the inn – w...hich was referred to in the pamphlet he had been given as a “guest house”. A worker in a downtown tourist information station, responding gently to the Westerner’s obvious breathless befuddlement, had given him the pamphlet – suggesting the guest house to him for its low cost – and had even gone so far as to call the place for him. By Korean won, which he had traded his American dollars for at a currency exchange booth in Incheon International Airport, he figured the cost to be less than $40 a night.MoreLess
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