이번 달 영어읽기는 가볍게 어린 왕자. 한글로 여러 번 읽었고 영어 문장도 쉽고 분량도 적어서 무난했다. 어린 왕자가 정원에 핀, 길들지 않은 장미들에게 하는 말은 무례해 보인다는 걸 새로 알게 되었네. 장미들이 당황스러워했다니. 9월엔 첫째가 추천한 <Holes> 읽기로. 초등 3학년 수준으로.
"You understand... it is too far. I cannot carry this body with me. It is too heavy."I said nothing."But it will be like an old abandoned shell. There is nothing sad about old shells......."I said nothing. He was a little discouraged. But he made one more effort: "You know, it will be very nice. I, too, shall look at the stars. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All thestars will pour out fresh water for me to drink......."I said nothing. - P131
Look at it carefully so that you will be sure to recognize it in case you travel some day to the African desert. And, if youshould come upon this spot, please do not hurry on. Wait for a time, exactly under the star. Then, if a little man appears who laughs, who has golden hair and who refuses to answer ques-tions, you will know who he is. If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back. - P136
He made no answer to my question, but he added: "I, too, am going back home today." Then, sadly, "It is much far-ther it is much more difficult..." I realised clearly that something extraordinary was happening. I was holding him close in my arms as if he were a little child; and yet it seemed tome that he was rushing headlong toward an abyss from whichI could do nothing to restrain him. His look was very serious, like some one lost far away. - P126
Once again I felt myself frozen by the sense of something irreparable. And I knew that I could not bear the thought of never hearing that laughter any more. For me, it was like a spring offresh water in the desert. - P127
"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lightsin the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You, you alone, will have the stars as no one else has them" - P129
"The desert is beautiful," the little prince added.And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...."What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well." - P116
I had drunk the water. I breathed easily. At sunrise the sand is the color of honey. And that honey color was making me happy, too. What brought me, then, this sense of grief? - P121
But he interrupted me. "Now you must work. You must return to your engine. I will be waiting for you here. Come backtomorrow evening..."But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed....... - P122
"Good morning," said the little prince."Good morning," said the merchant.This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and youwould feel no need of anything to drink."Why are you selling those?" asked the little prince."Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week.""And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes?""Anything you like.......""As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty- - P112
three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water." - P113
