When TOILETS are SOLEMN PLACES…
May 4, 2011 Leave a comment
SOUR PICKINGS from my NORTH KOREAN DIARY 11.–21. April 2011
FAR MORE I resented the political system of the KIMS for having effectively established a paranoid, all encompassing power structure with the purpose to dehumanise contact and treat emotional exchange and empathy as forbidden acts. This state of mind obliged our guides to twist contact making and enforce restrictions on us.
Toilets were solemn places...
Whenever this got to me and threatened my well-being and my mood turned dark, I asked for the toilet.
Toilet at Mount Kuhol...space to myself...
Not so much because I wanted to vomit but for the sake of having space to myself. Though the stench often was unbearable the reality of the system was far worse.
...the reality outside was far worse...
Under circumstances like these toilets were solemn places and offered a rest for my agitated and angry mind in turmoil.
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