XX Bucket List — Prolog

IN THE BEGINNING... THE EARTH WAS BORN.

EVOLUTION BEGAN AMIDST THE CHAOS...

AND LIFE WAS BORN ALONGSIDE DESIRE.

THUS, THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY BEGAN.

ONE DAY—

A MONKEY WHO HAPPENED TO POSSESS A UNIQUELY ‘BIG ONE’ REALIZED IT.

SOMETHING BIG AND HARD—THAT WAS SURVIVAL ITSELF.

HUMANITY BEGAN CARVING THEIR WISHES ONTO CAVE WALLS.

THEY DREW GIANT MAMMOTHS, HOPING TO HUNT THEM.

THAT WISH MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN JUST ABOUT MAMMOTHS ALONE, THOUGH.

PERHAPS THAT WAS... HUMANITY'S VERY FIRST BUCKET LIST.

DESIRE LEFT THE CAVES BEHIND, RECORDED IN WRITING AND SYMBOLS ON PAPYRUS,

AND IN THE MAYA CIVILIZATION, IT WAS RECORDED AS THE IMAGE OF A GOD.

IN EGYPT, RECORDS SHOW THAT SOMETHING HUGE, LONG, AND SHAPED FROM THE HEAVENS ‘DESCENDED’ FROM THE SKY.

BIG THINGS,

<mount Rushmore, Usa>

HAVE EXISTED THROUGHOUT HISTORY—SOMETIMES SECRETLY, BUT ALWAYS STEADILY.

JOSEON WAS NO EXCEPTION.

PALACE MAIDS, HIDING THEIR DESIRES, CARVED PAULOWNIA WOOD FOR THEMSELVES.

WOMEN AMONG THE COMMON FOLK ALSO SECRETLY SHARED THEIR OWN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.

IT CAN EVEN BE FOUND IN EROTIC PAINTINGS (CHUNHWA).

THEIR INTEREST AND YEARNING...

FOR BIG, HARD THINGS...

AND TODAY,

ONE WOMAN IS ABOUT TO RECORD IT ONCE MORE.

PHEW..

SHE SAYS...

..SMALL ONES WON'T DO..

LOVE IS AN EMOTION, BUT CHOICE IS—INSTINCT.

Mutter... ABSOLUTELY..

—Mutter...

THIS IS A WOMAN'S SUBLIME... SPANNING ACROSS THE AGES...

*BIG NO MATTER WHAT!

IT IS LIKE A PRAYER.

PLEASE, LORD...

SEND ME SOMEONE BIG AND SOLID, PLEASE.