#화양연화thenotes

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[bangtanitalianchannel]

[TRAD ITA] 190107 TWEET DI SMERALDO BOOKS*:

“Seokjin  22 Maggio Anno 22  Sarei stato in grado di rimediare ai miei sbagli ed errori e a salvare gli altri? Non sono riuscito a comprendere la profondità e il peso di questa domanda. (1/15)  #HYYH** #TheNotes1 #SMERALDOBOOKS”  (N/B: *Viene da “Smeraldo Flowers”, che era il blog di un negozio di fiori fittizio, creato per postare contenuti relativi alle storyline dell’universo Bangtan.) (N/B: **Iniziali della parola coreana ‘Hwa Yong Yeon Hwa’ che vuol dire ‘Il più bel momento della vita’, nome della storyline creata dai Bangtan.)

Traduzione a cura di Bangtan Italian Channel Subs (©Rae)

[theoriesofuniverses]

The quality that Seokjin has traded

As we know, in the Fake Love teaser all the boys have traded some qualities, following the magic shop technique. I’ve seen people theoretizing about others’ qualities, but I’m here to talk about Seokjin’s quality he wanted to get rid of.

He wanted to give up the inability to hear himself.

In his WINGS short film, he’s having problem with an earpiece. It doesn’t make any sound. He doesn’t hear anything and eventually takes it off.

The earpieces are used by singers on stage to help them hear their own voices over blasting music. Seokjin doesn’t hear anything. He doesn’t hear himself.

In the materials we see or hear him saying things with the general meaning being “I need to learn to love and accept myself”. This is his issue in the Awake: he doesn’t accept himself, because he doesn’t even want to listen to himself.

Which is why he brings the broken earpiece to the Magic Shop. He wants to give up this quality. He wants to be able to hear himself again.

Alternatively, he brings the earpiece to the Shop for trade because he’s given up on himself completely. He doen’t even feel the need to hear his voice anymore.

What did he get from the shop though?

It might have been the lantern he wanted to protect so badly. Or, it might’ve been the polaroid camera.

Or maybe, it were his father’s notes.

[jazzieshoes]

23 July YEAR 10 

  I could not remember the face of my mother I had seen that day. I can only remember her passing a chocolate bar to me as we saw the attractions of the amusement park. “Hoseok-ah, count to ten and only then open your eyes.” Once I counted and opened my eyes, my mother was not there. I waited and waited, but she was not there.

[seoftjinnie]

her = the most beautiful moment in life pt.1 (i need u) tear = the most beautiful moment in life pt.2 (run) answer = young forever 

that’s all i’m saying.

[booksfornamjoon]

화양연화TheNotes Analysis (Part II)

화양연화TheNotes Analysis (Part I): Jungkook, 22 May YEAR 22

*Keep in mind this text was originally written in Spanish, so forgive any mistakes, English is not my first language.

*This analysis is mainly philological and a personal opinion.

[Here you can read Part I].

First of all, we find ourselves before a first-person narrator: 'I thought my body was floating', which tells us about a past time of a traumatic memory. Following the theories of narratology, the narrator in the first person (called 'internal narrator' or 'homodiegetic narrator'), is a character within the story ('intradiegetic narrator'), therefore, he only has and provides information based on his own experience of events. However, we must bear in mind that this type of narrator is the one that most differs from the author (the author is not the same as the narrator): Jungkook is a character in the text, he must necessarily comply with all the rules of being a character, even when he is performing tasks of storyteller. I think that, as we will see in the analysis, this narrator-protagonist tells his own story, he is the main character and everything that happens we know through him, that's why there are questions and confusion. This narrator adopts a subjective point of view that makes him identify with the protagonist and prevents him from interpreting in an absolute and impartial way the thoughts and actions of the other characters in the narrative (as we will also see). In short, it is the type of narrator that is used in genres such as the diary or autobiography and, in this case, I think it also has influences from the stream of consciousness technique, that is, trying to reproduce the mechanisms of thought in the text (associations of ideas), trying to blur the textual construction (authors such as Proust, Virginia Woolf or Joyce are experts in this type of narration).

Let's go into the text:

I thought my body was floating, but it was on a solid floor.

From the first moment, reference is made to the denial of the basic senses. Let us return to the idea of the narrator-protagonist: for him to have knowledge of something, he necessarily has to experience it with his own senses, or that some other character tells him about it. He can tell his own thoughts and opinions, but not those of the other characters, unless he knows them for any reason. Therefore, since it can only be based on its senses and these are not working properly, the narrative creates an atmosphere of confusion (which is precisely the effect that it is intended to achieve). That is why he uses verbs like 'think' ('I thought'), which in a certain way do not denote certainty.

The narrator-protagonist believes that he is floating in the air, that is, his abilities (psychic and physical) are depleted. He's like in a dream. His mind thinks that his body is flying, 'but it was on a solid floor'. He is being deceived by his own situation. We can quickly think that Jungkook has suffered an accident and, convalescing, between life and death, he experiences these sensations.

I did not feel anything for a while.

This phrase further corroborates the idea of an accident. The pain suffered causes paralysis.

I just could not lift my eyelids because my whole body was so heavy. I could not even swallow or breathe.

His body does not belong to him, although he is able to organize his ideas. His mind does work, even if it's confused and lost.

I was losing my consciousness and my surroundings slowly blurred.

Here we have the key: Jungkook is losing consciousness, he's losing the connection with reality, with life.

Then, by surprise my body started shaking heavily from something. Unknowing of what caused it, I had pain and I was in thirst.

The wounds, the pain. He does not know what happened to him or how he got to that point (or does not remember, or does not want to tell), but he is in a situation of extreme danger. Notice how many times the body is named.

It seemed like the sand has blurred my sight but something appeared.

What most attracts my attention, apart from the fact that the narrator continues to use verbs of uncertainties ('It seemed like ...'), is that they use the word 'sand' to refer to his diminished ability to see. The sand is not an image that is normally used as a metaphor for blindness (as I pointed out in the first part), but I can not help but think that that word is there for something and that it has to do with some metaphors of 'LY: Her'. Namjoon, the one who normally composes the lyrics, seems to be employing assiduously the 'sand-water' opposition. All the words in a text are a conscious choice, up to the points and commas, and we can not overlook that detail. In addition, we are presented with the first object that breaks his loneliness ('but something appeared').

I thought it was a light but it was not. It was bright, big and faint. It is floated in the air without moving. Looking at it for a while, it gradually became a solid form. It was the moon.

There are many interesting aspects in this fragment. In the first place, we can be sure that it is night, or at least he's in a dark place. Second, this is the perfect explanation of how a metaphor is constructed.

Metaphor: Rhetorical figure by which a reality or concept is expressed through a different reality or concept with which the represented has a certain relationship of similarity.

The moon, whose identity is given to us at the end, is described by images that denote its qualities: 'light', 'it was bright, big and faint', 'it floated in the air without moving', 'solid form'. It goes from the plane of the abstract, of the imaginary, of the symbol..., to the plane of the real. Honestly, I consider it an excellent fragment. Precisely, Jungkook is carrying out the same process as any metaphor: he's moving from the plane of the abstract, of the imaginary, of the unconscious..., to the plane of the real, of the conscious. 

If I use the word 'conscious' or 'unconscious', I must talk about Freud. I will try to summarize it since the theory of Freudian psychoanalysis is highly complex. Let's go in parts: 'conscious' is a term used by Sigmund Freud, as an adjective to qualify a psychic state, or as a noun, to indicate the location of certain processes constituting the functioning of the psychic apparatus. In this sense, the conscious, together with the preconscious and the unconscious, is one of the three instances of the first Freudian topic. The preconscious is, broadly speaking, those psychic processes, events, operations and contents that escape the present consciousness and that being essentially tied to the self, belong to its unconscious parts, without being properly part of the unconscious system. For Freud, the unconscious system is constituted largely (but not only) by repressed contents that have been prevented from accessing consciousness, precisely because of the mechanism of repression. In other words: the unconscious is a part of our cognitive system to which the conscience has no access (we do not perceive that it exists), but which is revealed in a series of formations such as dreams, lapses, jokes, games of words, failed actions and symptoms. The unconscious, according to Freud, has the peculiarity of being both internal to the subject (and to his consciousness) and external to all forms of domination by conscious thought. If these repressed elements (desires, phobias, impulses) manage to leave the unconscious (theoretically that was the role of psychoanalysis) and move on to the conscious, that is, if the symbolic passes to the real plane, then we are able to discover, among other things (I'm simplifying a lot), our internal drives, our true desires, our traumas. In short, the conscious designates the set of experiences from which the subject can give an account through an act of internal perception. In addition, for philosophy, consciousness is the human faculty to decide actions and take responsibility for the consequences according to the conception of good and evil. A conscious person, in this sense, is responsible, who does not act with negligence and who tries to minimize the negative consequences of their actions. If the albums of 'LY' (especially 'LY: Tear') are based on a process of self-knowledge, of the rupture of the individual for the construction of  the 'self', it is not unreasonable that Jungkook is playing with the unconscious and the conscious, since, in a certain way, the Freudian theory pretended to facilitate to patients that cure of reality, that process of personal discovery.

On the other hand, the presence of the moon in literature, especially in poetry, is extremely extensive and repeated. Precisely, in Spanish poetry, the moon is a symbol of first order. Authors such as Federico García Lorca understand the moon in a contradictory way: sometimes it is a symbol of life and death, other times of fertility, but in general, he includes it as an antithesis of the life cycle. Miguel Hernández (who is also my favourite poet) uses the moon (as is common in poetry) as a symbol of perfection, since it is circular (perfect form par excellence), and its white colour becomes synonymous with purity.

The moon came to the forge  with her skirt of white, fragrant flowers.  The young boy watches her, watches.  The boy is watching her.

In the electrified air  the moon moves her arms  and points out, lecherous and pure,  her breasts of hard tin.

Flee, moon, moon, moon.  If the gypsies were to come,  they would make with your heart  white necklaces and rings.

Young boy, leave me to dance.  When they come, the gypsies  will find you upon the anvil  with closed eyes.

Flee, moon, moon, moon.  Already I sit astride horses.  Young boy, leave me, don’t step on  my starched whiteness.

The horse rider approaches  beating the drum of the plain.  Within the forge the young man  has closed eyes.

Through the olive grove they come, the gypsies –  bronze and dreaming, heads lifted and eyes half closed.

Hark, hear the night bird – how it sings in the tree. Across the sky moves the moon, holding the young boy by the hand.

Within the forge the gypsies cry, are crying out. The air watches over her, watches.  The air is watching over her.

(Romance of the moon, moon, moon, written by Federico García Lorca in 1928).

We change the paragraph and the text continues:

The world was turned upside down as if I had turned my head.

Many fans have already made reference to that in the video of 'DNA', V comes out in some scenes upside down, which could explain this strange symbol. At the edge of the unconscious, almost hallucinating, his world is upside down (in a way I can not help relating this to the video of 'Serendipity', where Jimin's world also trembles because of falling in love).

In that world, the moon was also hanging upside down.

As if he were floating, the moon is down and he is up looking at her. I love this poetic image.

I tried to cough to breathe but could not move. And then I got the chills. I was scared.

His senses remain numb, but look how the sentences get shorter, creating an atmosphere of suspense. Suddenly, realizing his helplessness, he is afraid.

I tried to talk but I could not speak.

He can not talk, can not see, can not hear or move. He is subject to something he does not know.

I did not close my eyes but suddenly everything became black.

Abruptly, the narrative takes another turn. Jungkook is fainting beyond repair. We are going to lose him, he will not be able to tell us anything else and suddenly the last sentence of the text appears:

I lost my conscious and someone said: Living can be more painful than dying. But do you want to live?

He loses consciousness (which is what the text was suggesting the whole time) and, outside the world of the living, of the tangible, of the 'real', someone appears. It is curious this figure that appears when he is on the verge of death. He can not tell us who he is, how he is physically..., he/she is categorized indefinitely, which gives the figure an aura of mystery and certain danger. This appearance addresses him with enigmatic words: Living can be more painful than dying. But do you want to live?

Is God? Is his consciousness? His unconscious?

Whatever it is, it is obvious that he/she's providing another opportunity to live, but first asks if JK wants that second chance. Do you want to live? Are you willing to pay the price of what it means to live? Do you value your life? Do you deserve to be reborn?

Living can be more painful than dying. 

This phrase has a direct influence on one of the basic ideas of Christianity (at least in its origins): life as a valley or path of tears. The earth is a place of penance to reach heaven.

Blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee, in whose heart are Thy ways, who passing through the Valley of Baca makes it a well; the rain also filleth the pools. They go from strength to strength; every one of them in Zion appeareth before God (Psalms 84: 5-7).

It also reminds me of the philosophy of Schopenhauer, who only considered salvation through suffering.

Finally, inevitably, that 'someone', by how he/she appears on the scene and by the words he/she addresses, reminds me of Dante's Divine Comedy. Specifically, the encounter between Dante and Virgil at the beginning of the book (Inferno: Canto I). At that point in the storyline, Dante is lost, in the middle of an inhospitable beach (SAND!!!) that is as strange as terrifying. Afterwards, three wild beasts (symbolizing lust, pride and greed) prevent him from going (Does not this have anything to do with ‘Wings' album?!). When he can not advance anymore, he only has the path of the wild jungle, in where he has awakened without knowing how he got there (Similarities to JK's situation?). There, crying with fear, an unknown figure appears. It is Virgil, one of the most important Latin poets (and a role model for humanists like Dante Alighieri), who from that moment will become his guide through hell, the first stage of his purification process to reach his beloved, Beatrice.  Dante, who personifies humanity, represents the temptation of sin, Beatrice, who personifies the Faith and will take Dante to each of the spheres of paradise, to the Empyrean, immobile space, where he will contemplate the mystical Rose formed by God and his chosen. And Virgilio, who symbolises reason.

It is because of me that he goes to the city of tears, it is because of me that he goes to the eternal pain and to the place where the condemned race suffers, I was created by the divine power, the supreme wisdom and the first love, and there was nothing that existed before me, abandon hope if you enter here (Inscription Dante reads in the door of Hell).

The Divine Comedy is a work written around 1321 and narrates the journey of Dante through hell and purgatory (with overcoming all tests) to reach paradise, where his beloved waits. Hell represents the human being in front of his sins and his dire consequences. Purgatory, the slow purification of their faults until liberation. Going down to the underworld to re-emerge, even if it leads to the resurrection from the dead, is the price for self-knowledge. We are, once again, facing a path of personal discovery that, although it involves pain, shapes the individual.

[marismares]

The Notes #BTS #방탄소년단 #화양연화TheNotes

[yesparkjiminie]

LOVE YOURSELF: TEAR – 花樣年華 THE NOTES

Trad. PT-BR

[strawberrisncreme]

‘For us, mankind was a distant future toward which we were all journeying, whose aspect no one knew, whose laws weren’t written down anywhere.’ (Demian, Herman Hesse)

I really wanted to try and piece together what Jungkook’s backstory might be, so here’s this horrid mess of clips mashed together in pure desperation. This is personally how I think it plays out! Most of it is based off the HYYH notes~

[paperdollyg]

[TRANS] #화양연화TheNotes "LOVE YOURSELF "TEAR""

Pensé que mi cuerpo estaba flotando, pero en realidad estaba sobre el suelo duro.Por un momento, no sentía nada. Mi cuerpo simplemente se sentía tan pesado, que ni siquiera podía levantar el parpado de mis ojos.No podía pasar mi propia saliva, ni siquiera respirar. Poco a poco mi entorno se volvía borroso mientras la conciencia en mi se desvanecía. 

Entonces algo pareció sorprenderme, y todo mi cuerpo se removió. En medio del dolor y la sed sin estar seguro de donde venía, sin saberlo, abrí los ojos. Como si estuviera llena de arena, a través de mi visión sombría, puede ver algo.Pensé que era una luz, pero no lo era. Era grande, brillante y nubloso.Solo estaba flotando en el aire, sin moverse.

Lo observe por unos momentos, y poco a poco estaba tomando forma. Era la luna.El mundo estaba al revés, no sabía si era por mi cabeza inclinada. Pero, en ese mundo, la luna también estaba al revés. Trate de toser para recuperar la respiración, pero mi cuerpo no podía moverse. Entonces, después, un escalofrió llego a mi. Estaba asustado. Movi mis labios, pero nada con sentido salio. Mis ojos ni siquiera estaban cerrados, pero todo se estaba volviendo cada vez más oscuro.Mientas mi conciencia se iba desvaneciendo, alguien hablo. 

         "Vivir es más doloroso que morir, aún así ¿todavía quieres vivir?

KRN - ESP: @PAPERDOLLYG

[bangtan-translations]

[TRAD] "HYYH: The Notes" #화양연화TheNotes

Bang Bangtan

Sé que estaban esperando que tradujéramos esto, disfrútenlo :) tómenlo como incentivo para que sigan reproduciendo y votando ;) 

Psdt: Hay una nota de Jin que ya lo habíamos publicado antes :) si quieren verlo pueden buscarlo en nuestra lista en la sección de Galería :)

Psdt2: Lloré mientras lo traducía (las de Jimin y JK) T-T 

POR FAVOR NO RESUBIR!! Respeten el trabajo y esfuerzo de los demás :)

Chini~

[suga-ssi]

#화양연화TheNotes: Seokjin

13 June Year 22

Trans: Alli / Typesetting cr; Laura @ bts-trans

After returning from that sea, we were all alone.

[minijinnie]

화양연화 The Notes

석진

13 June Year 22

[theoriesofuniverses]

Yet another theory on the latest note. They made a full circle.

So as I’ve noted there are two army camps now: those who believe we were seeing the memories of Jin’s father all this time or those who believe Jin was time traveling and those were his memories. I’m prob gonna start the third camp because I don’t believe neither one of them. I’m not a huge fan of the time travelling theory.

They were travelling the universes (as explained in here) and they made a full circle. They came back to the universe they’ve started off from. And in this universe, having made his own numerous mistakes, Jin finds his father’s notes. Because only after making our own mistakes are we able to learn from mistakes of our fathers.

(the fathers’ mistakes are actually a whole new concept they have and I’ll have this talk saved up for later)

So they made a full circle. They were travelling many universes where Jin was trying to save them, save his friends, but he couldn’t even save himself. Because he couldn’t hear himself.

And when the wall was destroyed, I think it was the reference to the Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. In the End of the World, the character was living in a city encircled by a wall, and there were no bad things, no bad memories, no sadness. He didn’t remember anything (just like Jin did) and there was. A. Wall. In Murakami’s novel, though, the wall wasn’t affected in any way. But here, they broke it. They were able to get away from the world where they weren’t themselves, because they couldn’t even remember who they were, exactly (and I think that’s the universe with the girls). Jin dragged them in there because he was trying so desperately to bring them back to life (that’s a reference to the Neverland theories), but he couldn’t, as he didn’t know who he was himself. Before saving someone else, you have to save yourself first.

So the Answer is: no matter how hard you’re trying to run away, you’ll have to come back from where you started. You have to learn from the mistakes of your father. Before saving someone else, you have to save yourself first. You have to learn and hear yourself first. You have to love yourself.

[jazzieshoes]

9 December YEAR 10 

 I didn’t think of how long it had been since I last saw him or where he had been. I just ran into his embrace. I can’t recall clearly what happened afterwards. Did I first smell the alcohol, hear him curse at me, or get slapped by him? I didn’t understand what was happening....In the next moment, my head hit the wall, and I fell to the floor.

[celestial-jeon-remade]

this user has made rough translations of just about all the HYYH notes

(trigger warning for mentions of suicide, abuse, violence, and drugs)