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The Nine Cloud Dream

Kim Man-jung

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1687
Originally in
Originally in Korean
Pages
Pages 240

Eight fairy maidens cross a stone bridge, and a young monk who should be thinking only of the Buddha lets his eyes follow them. That single flicker of longing costs him paradise.

Was Chang's becoming a butterfly a dream, or was the butterfly's becoming Chang a dream?
The Nine Cloud Dream, Kim Man-jung

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