The bakery closed down

There was a bakery near my old apartment that I’d continued going to since coming back to Korea. I’d gone to other bakeries, but this one had the best corn bread. (No, not like back home. This is just a regular loaf of bread, but made with corn flour.) 

But like a lot of establishments in this area, you never know how long things are going to be around. Last weekend, after buying what would be my last loaf of bread there, the bakery closed down. 

The loaf I’d bought ran out yesterday and today I had to get bread from another bakery. I like this bakery just fine and all, but the bread just isn’t the same. Just upsets me sometimes that the good things don’t seem to last. 

Delicate Wonders

Han:  It is difficult to associate these horrors with the proud civilizations that created them: Sparta, Rome, The Knights of Europe, the Samurai... They worshipped strength, because it is strength that makes all other values possible. Nothing survives without it. Who knows what delicate wonders have died out of the world, for want of the strength to survive.

 Rooper:  What’s this?

Han comes over to see Rooper looking at the frail, skeletal remains of a human hand inside the display case.

 Han:  Ohh...A souvenir.



Probably my favorite scene from Enter the Dragon. We know from the previous scene that Han is missing his left hand, which means the remains in the display was his...a delicate wonder that had died out of the world and been replaced with something crude and monstrous.