'Letter to Anne'
Short Fiction 김은영
2009. 2. 28.
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Emily,
I'm a shitty person because I think too much. It's also an
inexplicably shitty excuse but I hope that you'll read this letter to
the end without ripping it into pieces. I know that you’re angry
with me because of Anne and it's OK to be angry with me; I can't
care less. That's the thing about me that you should understand.
I've never taken too much attention to someone else than myself
- this extremity of selfish cognition I must admit. But I have
things to settle for Anne so that's why I began writing this letter.
I don't want to ask you any favors but if you have a little bit of
our friendship left from years ago – and from what I comprehend,
you'll have at least some of them – I was wondering if you could
just make these notes seem right for Anne because this is going
to be the last note that I’ll be leaving about her. So here it goes.
I think I'll never know her wholly even if we spent plenty of time
together but here's the thing about Anne: Before Anne got sick,
about 4 years ago, we had that big Christmas party where I got
the book “The Little Prince”. I was never into fiction but I read
it
anyway and I came upon a word “tamed”. At that time, I thought
simply that the word ‘tamed” meant that it's the process of
knowing each other; that I’ll be able to love the ONE in the crowd
of thousands of roses and foxes by understanding each other and
seeing through our true self. So Emily, that’s what I tried.
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