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Not the Foggiest Notion | Jung Young Moon | Granta

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‘It didn’t matter to me what we would be doing or where. It didn’t matter to me in the least.’ Jung Young Moon, translated from the Korean by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. She was sound asleep beside me when I woke up. I gazed at her sleeping form for a time. Coming to this hotel beside the lake was her idea. I got out of bed, sat beside the window, and looked out. It was winter and the light of the full moon shone coldly on the surface of the lake. Her call had arrived on an afternoon when I had no idea what to do with myself: I’d been lying still in my bed for the longest time, thinking I would like to continue lying still in my bed, absolutely still, as still as a performance artist in a pair of stiletto heels at a museum. And then I looked around my room and thought that it contained too many crevices and recesses, including some at the far side of the room that might only have been pretending to be recesses, and that didn’t sit right with me. And when I looked at the crevices and rece

Not the Foggiest Notion | Jung Young Moon | Granta Skip to main content Not the Foggiest Notion Jung Young Moon Translated by Bruce Fulton & Ju-Chan Fulton ‘It didn’t matter to me what we would be doing or where. It didn’t matter to me in the least.’ Jung Young Moon, translated from the Korean by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton. She was sound asleep beside me when I woke up. I gazed at her sleeping form for a time. Coming to this hotel beside the lake was her idea. I got out of bed, sat beside the window, and looked out. It was winter and the light of the full moon shone coldly on the surface of the

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