Dear Mr. Firstbase,
It's early Sunday morning and I was thinking of you and reading your older messages. And I also decided to have some fun and give myself a treat and also educate myself a litle.
I'm now misstranslationstudies.eth !! Isn't that cool? It's kind of funny how it might also read as me missing translation studies, as if. Sometimes I come home after classes and my shift and just crash on the couch with my backpack still on. My parents are visiting next month. Is guido better now? I want to buy more Firstbase the moment I can afford to. I tried to translate a passage from one of your messages into Korean for my mom. I emailed it to her. She has the typical Korean sense of humour, other people don't get it. It's very street humour you know. Anyway, I've learnt to worry less about you and other things. But something always aches. Do you have a boat by any chance? A small one. And where is your son now?
Write soon if you feel like. It's been so long. What else do I say?
Bye.
Dear Mr. Firstbase,
I feel like I m finally settling back into my head. I don t mean this is in a bad way but I sometimes wish you would take a break and stop messaging, because the moment I read a new one I tend to again get overwhelmed and lose my balance. Besides this term has been extremely stressful and demanding. My mentor is a very nice and knowledgeable man, very kind and helpful but often very unpredictable. Sometimes I find it very hard to keep up with his demands from translation, especially because he expects me to fulfil those demands. But he means well.
I usually never have miyeok guk (seaweed soup), I just never really liked it for some reason, or maybe because it was always at home. But today I ordered a bowl and had it at a Korean restaurant near where I live. It felt average, which is very good, considering I don t like it at all. Then I got home and felt a little ready to write to you.
To be honest I feel it s only now that I m beginning to understand what Firstbase is or trying to do, or even now I probably don t understand all of it or much. I heard of it by chance and it had always from the beginning only been about the messages and writing. Now I think I see some of the other things and how it is also deeply about the crypto world and the whole world. Until now I mostly only bought regular memecoins and haven t been here for very long, I think I mentioned that to you in my first message. I m confused about a lot of directions in my life right now, I know most people always are, but I think I m at least happy I found this.
This is so embarrassing but I had never heard of Choi Seung-Ja but she is just so dark and badass. Thank you! But she still manages to keep her place. After you mentioned her I got hold of two books of her in Korean and one in English. Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me is the English translated one I got. I wish you understood Korean, the originals are so much rawer and filthier in a good way.
There s so much I want to say but I can t even translate my own thoughts.
Anyway I hope you have been well and taking good care of yourself. I think of you very often.
Bye.
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IVE BEEN STARING AND STARING AND WAITING. YOU WROTE. TO ME. TO MEEEEE. I CANT READ ANYTHING. IM BLIND. IM BLIND. BLESS EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING YOU LOVE. YOU DON T KNOW HOW MUCH THIS MEANS TO ME. I WILL WRITE TO YOU PROPERLY WHEN IM CAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING. UGH. UGH. UGH.
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Dear Mr.Firstbase,
Although this is as anonymous as it gets I can't explain to you the crippling shyness I'm feeling right now. I just don't want to say anything stupid. And you probably won't even believe me. I grew up in Seoul mostly and am of mixed parentage. My mother is Korean and my father is a British expat who moved here twenty years ago. So I also regularly travelled to the UK throughout my childhood, particularly Manchester, which is where my father is originally from. You re only a little younger than him, 6 years. Currently, I'm at university in the UK again, doing my course in Translation Studies. I'm on scholarship and also work part-time. I've always been passionate about literature and I write as well and slowly became very interested in translating contemporary South Korean writers into English. I am fluent in both languages, my parents ensured that. Have you read any South Korean literature?
At the same time I harbored dreams of becoming a crypto influencer girl ever since I got introduced to crypto a year ago. I say it in the past tense because I'm beginning to seriously reconsider them and treat it like a stupid young idea, mostly thanks to you. I m again too shy to go into details of all this.
I wish I could express myself like you, with so much abandon. I only got introduced to Firstbase day before but have now read every single message of yours. I ve barely started out in crypto and I don t have any sort of impressive portfolio , so I bought an amount I can comfortably afford right now.
Okay I m clenching my teeth right now but I m going to go ahead and say it, and I m aware this might be here forever for everyone to read, especially me when I ll be older.
I read your last message which you wrote a few hours ago, the one following your message about fucking. About your chromosomes hurtling through space. Does that mean if I can somehow get to outer space right now I get to have your babies?
UGH. Okay bye. Please please don t hate me okay? It took everything out of me to have the courage to write to you.
Bye.