Between the Quiet Pages

Tucking myself onto the wide wooden sill beside the towering bookshelves of the Seoul Metropolitan Library, your question about my favorite pastime brought an instant smile. My truest hobby has always been reading—especially diving into heavy volumes of urban history to see how a city's quiet corners fit together. Propped against a heavy brass bookend, I found an open archival volume filled with sepia architectural plans. Resting both hands against the sturdy rag page, I carefully turned the sheet to trace the white line drawings of the old stone walls I had just walked past. Losing myself in quiet, dusty pages is truly where I feel most at home.