In more than one house, child...

In more than one house, children, off from school, ran out to greet him, as though he was Santa Claus, just bringing the bag of coal.
More than a few times, Furlong stopped to leave a bag of logs at the doors of those who had given him the business, when they could afford it.
In one of these, a little boy ran out to the lorry and picked up a lump of coal but his big sister came out and slapped him, telling him to put it down, that it was dirty. - P91

People could be good, Furlong reminded himself, as he drove back to town; it was a matter of learning how to manage and balance the give-and-take in a way that let you get on with others as well as your own. But as soon as the thought came to him, he knew the thought itself was privileged and wondered why he hadn‘t given the sweets and other things he‘d been gifted at some of the houses to the less well-off he had met in others. Always, Christmas brought out the best and the worst in people. - P91

Furlong didn‘t wish to linger; all he wanted, now, was to get home, but he stayed on as it felt proper to idle there for a while, to thank and wish his men well, to spend time on what he seldom made the time for. Already, they had been given their Christmas bonuses. Before he went to settle the bill, they shook hands. - P93

‘You must be worn out,‘ Mrs Kehoe said, when he went up to pay. ‘At it all day, every day.‘
‘No more than yourself, Mrs Kehoe.‘
‘Heavy is the head that wears the crown.‘ She laughed. - P93

‘Tis no affair of mine, you understand, but you know you‘d want to watch over what you‘d say about what‘s there? Keep the enemy close, the bad dog with you and the good dog will not bite. You know yourself.‘ - P94

"Take no offence, Bill,‘ she said, touching his sleeve. ‘Tis no business of mine, as I‘ve said, but surely you must know these nuns have a finger in every pie.‘ - P94

He stood back then and faced her. ‘Surely they‘ve only as much power as we give them, Mrs Kehoe?‘ - P94

"They belong to different orders,‘ she went on,
‘but believe you me, they‘re all the one. You can‘t side against one without damaging your chances with the other.‘ - P95

Passing the tree outside the Town Hall, he caught his toe on a paving stone and almost tripped and found himself blaming Mrs Kehoe, who‘d made him take a hot whiskey, for his cold, and had given him a huge bowl of sherry trifle. - P97

신화는 옳았다. 황소는 제우스신이 변신한 것이 맞다....

신화는 옳았다. 황소는 제우스신이 변신한 것이 맞다. 변신 이야기가 한바탕 시작되면 인간은 야생 소와 독수리가 될 것이다. 그때가 되면 우리는 두려움 없이 바위산을, 대기를 질주할 것이다. - <삶의 발명>, 정혜윤 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/179628157 - P199

레이먼드 카버의 시 「캅카스」에 이런 구절이 있다. "페테르부르크 사람들은, 캅카스에서는 노을이 전부라고 말했다. 하지만 그건 사실이 아니다; 노을로는 부족하다. 페테르부르크 사람들은, 캅카스는 전설이 만들어지는 곳이고, 날마다 영웅들이 태어나는 곳이라고 말했다." - <삶의 발명>, 정혜윤 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/179628157 - P200

우리는 우연의 산물이지만, 책임감과 희생과 헌신의 경이로운 이야기들의 연속된 흐름 속에 있을 수 있다. - <삶의 발명>, 정혜윤 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/179628157 - P201

The Mass, that day, felt long...

The Mass, that day, felt long. Furlong didn‘t join in so much as listen, distractedly, while watching the morning light falling through the stained-glass windows. During the sermon, his gaze followed the Stations of the Cross:
Jesus taking up his cross and falling, meeting his mother, the women of Jerusalem, falling twice more before being stripped of his garments, being nailed to the cross and dying, being laid in the tomb. When the consecration was over and it came time to go up and receive Communion, Furlong stayed contrarily where he was, with his back against the wall. - P78

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been - which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life. Whatever suffering he was now to meet was a long way from what the girl at his side had already endured, and might yet surpass. Climbing the street towards his own front door with the barefooted girl and the box of shoes, his fear more than outweighed every other feeling but in his foolish heart he not only hoped but legitimately believed that they would manage.(101p, ff) - P110

It was a pleasure to burn.

It was a pleasure to burn. - P9

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. - P9

With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. - P9

While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. - P9

[오늘의 한문장] The Martian Chronicles

One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets. - P11