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Quote #10
Soon I would be in a rural village, green and peaceful, where people swung their scythes in silence. There would be a widow there, and we would waste no time on courtship. I would approach her and tell her I was her new husband. (412)
The Interrogator appears at first to have no personal identity (hence the lack of name), but he does have a very specific vision for his fantasy life. It's a world that he can only reach through self-inflicted torture, but it's clear that the peace of a normal life can't be his any other way. His vision of Eden is not only green and peaceful; it also includes a person with whom he can connect and who will live for him.
Quote #11
Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them. He considered sharing how there was only one penalty, the ultimate one, for questioning reality, how a citizen could fall into great jeopardy for simply noticing that realities had changed. (418)
Imposter Ga can't help but reflect on the irony of this situation—that Kim Jong Il, the ultimate storyteller and bender of reality, wants to get at the truth of how the former Jun Do broke out of prison. The Dear Leader seems unaware that his policy of privileging a good story over truth has ruined his chances of ever learning what really happened down in that prison mine.
Quote #12
Dipping his finger in a bloody wound, Commander Ga wrote inspirational slogans on the plane's windows, and to give Sun Moon some measure of resolve, he wrote in red, backward, a reminder of the Dear Leader's eternal love for her, nay, of his love for every citizen of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea! (442)
Jun Do/Imposter Ga's narrative line ends several times, but none so dramatically as in this version cooked up by the guys from Propaganda. This story solidly illustrates what the Captain observed earlier in the work: the state needs stories it can use, no matter how unbelievable. Commander Ga as hero and martyr in the fight against American aggressors is far more usable than an impostor who one-upped the Dear Leader and took his fate into his own hands.