[오늘의 한문장] The Summer Book : A Novel

Every year, the bright Scandinavian summer nights fade away without anyone noticing.
One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it’s pitch-black.
A great warm, dark silence surrounds the house.
It is still summer,but summer is no longer alive.
It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and autumn is not ready to begin.
There are no stars yet, just darkness.
The can of keroseneis brought up from the cellar and left in the hall,and the lamp is hung up on its peg by the door.(August) - P133

[오늘의 한문장] The Summer Book : A Novel

It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long, windless swell. It was on days just like this—dog days—that boats went sailing off all by themselves. Large, alien objects made their way in from sea, certain things sank and others rose, milk soured, and dragonflies danced in desperation. Lizards were not afraid. When the moon came up, red spiders mated on uninhabited skerries, where the rock became an unbroken carpet of tiny, ecstatic spiders. (Day of Danger) - P129

The seas breaking against the...

The seas breaking against the sheer outer side of the island had grown. One after the other, the waves rose up in their white immensity to a tremendous height, and foam hissed against the rocks like the blows of a whip. - P123

"ONE VERY HOT DAY ABOUT NOON, the midges started dancing above the tallest spruce tree on the island..." - P128

[오늘의 한문장] 길 위의 뇌

달리기의 가을
가을에 결실을 맺는 것은 곡식만이 아니다. 달리기도 가을에 끝난다. 러너들은 지난 여름 길바닥에다 무수히 흘렸던 땀방울의 결실을 이 계절에 거둔다. 여름 공기 사이를 메우던 습기는 사라지고 바람은 날렵해진다. 더위와 습도에 한없이 늘어지던 러너들의 몸도 페이스와 함께 날렵해진다. 흘린 땀만큼 몸은 더 야위고 햇볕에 그을려 근육의 결은 선명해진다.

-알라딘 eBook <길 위의 뇌> (정세희 지음) 중에서 - P59

She started thinking about al...

She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn’t have time.(The Visitors) - P108

"Just because more and more people do the same dumb things, that’s nothing to make such a fuss about. Progress is another thing entirely, you know that. Changes. Big changes. "(The Visitor) - P108

"Who‘s he going to outwit?" Sophia asked.
"Relatives." Grandmother said. "Nasty relatives. They tell him what to do without asking him what he wants, and so there‘s nothing at all he really does want."(The Visitor) - P111