[오늘의 한문장] 원 데이

"우리는 될 수 있는 대로 많은 돈을 썼다. 그리고 그 대가로 사람들이 주려고 마음먹는 한 최대한 조금씩만 받았다. 우리는 늘 적잖이 처참한 상태였고, 우리가아는 인물들은 거의 전부 다 엇비슷한 처지였다. 우리들끼리는 끊임없이 즐기며살고 있다는 소문이 왁자했지만, 실상은 전혀 그렇지 않았다는 게 본질이고 진실이었다. 내가 아는 한 우리 같은 경우는 결코 평범한 사례라고 할 수가 없었다."

찰스 디킨즈 - 위대한 유산

[오늘의 한문장] One Day

‘We spent as much money as we could and got aslittle for it as people could make up their minds togive us. We were always more or less miserable, andmost of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we wereconstantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truththat we never did. To the best of my belief, our casewas in the last aspect a rather common one.‘


Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

[오늘의 한문장] One Day

Now on Day Two, with The Rules still in place, they lay onthe deck of the ancient rust-spotted ferry as it chugged slowlyfrom Rhodes towards the smaller Dodecanese islands. Their firstnight had been spent in the Old Town, drinking sugary cock-tails from hollowed-out pineapples, unable to stop grinning ateach other with the novelty of it all. The ferry had left Rhodeswhile it was still dark and now at nine a.m. they lay quietlynursing their hangovers, feeling the throb of the engines in theirchurning liquid stomachs, eating oranges, quietly reading, quietlyburning, entirely happy in each other‘s silence.
Dexter cracked first, sighing and placing his book on his chest:Nabokov‘s Lolita, a gift from Emma who was responsible forselecting all the holiday reading, a great breeze-block of books,
a mobile library that took up most of her suitcase.
A moment passed. He sighed again, for effect.
What‘s up with you?‘ said Emma, without looking up fromDostoyevsky‘s The Idiot.
♡

[오늘의 한문장] One Day

Dexter had stuck his cocktail umbrella behind his ear now,
the girl collapsing into enchanted laughter at the genius of it.
‘Certainly seems that way,‘ said Emma. What was it, shewondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan lifeat her? As soon as she‘d met him at the arrivals gate on his returnfrom Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knewthat there was no chance of a relationship between them. Toomuch had happened to him, too little had happened to her. Evenso this would be the third girlfriend, lover, whatever, that she hadmet in the last nine months, Dexter presenting them up to herlike a dog with a fat pigeon in his mouth. Was it some kind ofsick revenge for something? Because she got a better degree thanhim? Didn‘t he know what this was doing to her, sat at table ninewith their groins jammed in each other‘s faces?
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[오늘의 한문장] 원 데이

하루하루는 무엇인가?
하루하루, 거기서 우리가 산다.
하루가 와서 우리를 깨운다.
영겁의 시간 동안,
하루하루 속에서 산다는 건 행복하나니거기가 아닌 어디에서 우리가 살겠는가?
아, 이 질문을 풀기 위해
목사도 의사도 달려온다.
롱코트를 펄럭이며들판을 가로질러

필립 라킨 하루하루』