Background
Liquid Knowledge was inspired by two quotes that were stored in my mind and I thought about them daily. They were Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” and Socrates' “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” I included much symbolism that had abstract and multiple meanings to the story, so anything could be the right answer. I have also alluded to a couple novels that I have read in my life such as The Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye, and the autobiography of Night. I suppose if I were to explain to you my whole thought process and the fine details, I should start broad. So I will.
Mechanics
I used the style of one line per phrase until the last chapter to create a sense of brokenness, a sort of disconnection between thoughts and more thoughts. Thoughts that suddenly would move forwards, backwards, or sideways. I was purposefully not mindful of tenses like I usually was because I wanted to strengthen the latter fact. All seventeen chapters were a complete separate from reality, so if you suspended all belief through the entire story, you were doing something right. I didn't place quotations in any of words “spoken” because they weren't spoken. They were all thought by the narrator, which is revealed to be myself, so I shall use a personal pronoun for addressing the narrator, or writer. I also didn't use quotations to further elaborate the single chapter of reality, to finally hear a real person speak. The language was simple because I don't believe many people think in long complex words, since the story is centered around me, I surely do not think in long complex words. And I also used a lot of repetition to emphasize a meaning or central point, marking those words as important to the work as a whole.
Setting
There are only limited amount of settings that are actually elaborated in pictures in this story. Two being the laboratory and the interviewing room. The laboratory held the image of being somewhere you didn’t want to go in your free time, because it had a very unfriendly aura and was immensely cold. And the interviewing room, albeit the place of Tiffany’s shooting, was supposed to give you a sense of security since it was supported by the law and authority. There were cameras and other people that watched everyone’s every move, therefore you are most likely lead to believe that the tension would keep the interviewees in place. The speed in which I could travel from place to place was unbelievably quick, so that would also prompt suspension of belief. Other areas such as Taeyeon’s home, the high class hotel room (which expressed the desire for luxury even in desperation,) and the open word in general were places where evil can and did happen. Which means everywhere, there are no exceptions where evil can be exposed.
Plot
The plot was ever changing, I didn't plan for me to be the central character, well, “I” was, but I didn't plan to use my name in the story. In the beginning, I didn't expect for me to turn evil, I wanted to keep myself sane. So I placed extra questions and answers regarding to better side of me, questioning the legitimacy of the corruptions of humans and keeping myself in line as an average run of the mill journalist. I was a journalist who was tired of the negative way society works and I wanted to find a way to get rid of it. All those chapters trying to see me in a better light was both purposeful and ironic. Because if we were to talk real-time of me actually writing the story, I had already killed Tiffany and had begun fabricating this story from the beginning in which I was good. Taeyeon used to be real, she used to be a real character but the control over the whole entire story and the amount of fiction that had to be injected into her to make her real was impossible. She had to be a figment of imagination if she could do all the things that I claimed she did to me to commit crimes such as murder, grave digging, and trespassing. Jung Jessica was the prostitute that I slept with before I wrote the story therefore she was included, and Kwon Yuri remained in her role as the guardian angel and friend of Jessica, and therefore remained as a very minor character. But still important. The flashbacks to the past were foundations for the insanity that racked through me, and they perhaps created sort of a sympathetic perspective from the reader.
In the original plan, I wanted me to stay good and extract the entire horrible truth from Taeyeon about Liquid Knowledge and torturing Tiffany and Jessica. And then she would be arrested and Tiffany would move on with her life with a future husband of some sort. But after a couple revisions and how I saw the story was moving, I knew that some things had to change. Therefore, I changed the route in which the story moved so the beginning was the end. And with this format where all this is in my head, I provided myself with more flexibility for nonsensical theories and characters with no direction. I never revised this story, nor will I ever because I want to keep the authenticity of this being an imitation of rushed work of a murderer. If I were to be caught by the law with such a criminal record, how would I write? I would get down to the point, not caring if anything made sense or not. As long as the lie was bought, mechanics didn't matter. But obviously, the lie as not bought, and reality continues. In reality, I have killed Tiffany in her home after stalking her after her testimony at my office. Then after her, I have gone on a killing spree and had done all that the interrogator from Chapter 18 had mentioned. The story is an exaggerated fiction of everything that I have done, and placing Tiffany's murder last, making it seem like a pressure from the evil force of Taeyeon, who doesn't exist. She is the embodiment of my imagination and will for my thirst of knowledge. Liquid Knowledge, although it holds the title, does not actually have the significance it possible deserves. Because it doesn't exist also, it is grouped with Taeyeon as another embodiment of evil, it prompted Taeyeon to do evil, and therefore Taeyeon prompted me to do evil. Liquid Knowledge was the start of a domino effect for insanity.
