Little Whale’s Sea 04

Recommended by Korean School Librarian Association

Recommended by School Librarian Conference

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In a world where all unnecessary things are gone People desperately want all the useless things

There is a perfect world where everything you don't need is gone. In this world, there are only reasonable and efficient things, and there is nothing that is inconvenience and regretful. People take pills instead of eating rice, walk with a moving walk, find love through a personality match program, and resolve hatred problem by a simple click. Negative emotions as well as joyous emotions are also gone because they are deemed wasteful. In a world where everything you need is there, a quirky scientist thinks hard to invent more things for the world until he comes upon a piece of fart that happened to be the last fart to remain in a world where all farts have been eradicated for being annoying. The scientist is charmed by the ecstatic sound and smell of the fart that he had never experienced before, and he eventually revives the fart and gives it a new life. Farts had been treated as useless before they were eradicated, but could they change the world where all emotions are gone and make the world beautiful and lively again? This is a bizarre fantasy world where comic situations are interwoven with philosophy and supernatural motifs are shifting into social consciousness, and the story about this world reveals that there are surprising values hidden behind the things that seem so trivial in our lives. When you travel through the world that is perfect but not so desirable and return to reality, you will wish to pick up the things that you have tossed and neglected for being useless. And you will also be inspired to think again to see if there are things that matters in life but you have been neglecting all these years.