Comments on: The Ring http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/ Alexander Chee Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:17:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JohnUrschel http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1549 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:04:27 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1549 I fell for a similar scam in New York when I was still new to visiting the City. Only it wasn’t a ring. Just more complicated and less elegant.

]]> By: patentleatherpussycat http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1540 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:01:05 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1540 You left your gypsy ring? It was too big for you, anyway.

]]> By: Davide http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1523 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:09:08 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1523 I love the elegiac take on the common scam. It reminds me of at the end of the film of Portrait of a Lady, the protagonists gestural yet aimless reach for the doorknob while turning.

(Kisses.)

]]> By: koreanish http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1518 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:46:10 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1518 Tony: I didn’t, because for most of our exchange I believed she had made an honest mistake thinking it was mine. But I still have it, all the same.

Lenore: Did I mention the time I moved back into NYC from Brooklyn, to open the Times and read “NYC is the new Brooklyn”?

I am the zeitgeist, basically.

]]> By: Lenore http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1516 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:41 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1516 Yikes…published as soon as you come back: http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/19/travel/19hours.html?em

Oh, well.

]]> By: Tony http://koreanish.com/2008/10/17/the-ring/#comment-1515 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:35:21 +0000 http://koreanish.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-1515 I hope you had one hand on your wallet during this interchange.

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