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

[오늘의 한문장] 길 위의 뇌

겨울 달리기에 이름을 붙인다면, 나는 ‘명징의 달리기’라 하겠다. 영어로는 ‘Lucidity’, 군더더기 없이 쨍하게 맑은 달리기.

-알라딘 eBook <길 위의 뇌> (정세희 지음) 중에서 - P54

[오늘의 한문장] The Summer Book : A Novel

The enormous plastic sausage rose leisurely over a reef and bounced down on the other side. The motor raced and the boat sped up and then jerked back again and took in water over the stern. And then it moved on again, but very slowly. - P97

우리도 죽을 때까지 최대한 혼자 화장실을 갈 수 있도...

우리도 죽을 때까지 최대한 혼자 화장실을 갈 수 있도록 지금부터 노력해야 한다. 몸과 뇌가 낡지 않도록 지금부터 잘 살아 놓아야 한다. 늙고 약해졌을 때 잘 회복할 몸의 힘과 정신적 힘을 지금부터 만들어야 한다.

-알라딘 eBook <길 위의 뇌> (정세희 지음) 중에서 - P33

헤르페스 뇌염으로 가장 많이 다치는 부위인 해마hippocampus의 위치 세포place cell—위치 기억과 길찾기를 담당하는 해마에만 있는 세포—에게 자극과 과제를 줄 의도였다. 달리기로 해마의 신경 재생—해마는 기억의 센터이며 달리기가 해마의 신경가소성을 촉진함은 잘 밝혀져 있다—을 촉진하면서 동시에 위치 기억 훈련도 꾀하는 것이다.

-알라딘 eBook <길 위의 뇌> (정세희 지음) 중에서 - P41

The robe smelled the same as ...

The robe smelled the same as before. It was very heavy, and became a warm, dark cave. Sophia fell asleep right away, and Grandmother sat down in the north window to wait. It was blowing hard, and the sun was setting. She was far-sighted and saw the boat half an hour before it reached the island – a moustache of white foam that would appear at irregular intervals and sometimes vanish entirely. - P89

A small island, on the other hand, takes care of itself. It drinks melting snow and spring rain and, finally, dew, and if there is a drought, the island waits for the next summer and grows its flowers then instead. The flowers are used to it, and wait quietly in their roots. There’s no need to feel sorry for the flowers, Grandmother said. - P91

The barking came nearer. When the dog caught sight of them, the barking rose an octave. It was a small black dog, as fierce as it was frightened. Its whole body shook with mixed feelings. - P79

Huge bales of real black inland soil were rolled ashore and lay around near the water like sleeping elephants. - P92

"Fritillaria imperialis," Sophia said. "Forsythia spectabilis! That’s a lot more elegant than ‘stepmother’." "Oh, I don’t know," Grandmother said. "For that matter, stepmother’s real name is Viola tricolor. Anyway, really elegant people don’t need nameplates." - P94

Once everything was in the earth, there was a long period of waiting. One still, warm day followed another. - P94

The island’s own turf dried out and turned up its edges like slices of old sausage, several spruces died, and every morning the weather was just as relentlessly beautiful. - P95

The thing about God, she thought, is that He usually does help, but not until you’ve made an effort on your own. - P97