[오늘의 한문장] 전쟁과 평화 1

그렇게 자작은 뜨거운 접시에 야채를 곁들여 담아낸 로스트비프처럼 대단히 우아하고도 그 자신에게 유리한 광채를 띤 채 그 모임에 제공되었다. - <전쟁과 평화 1>, 레프 톨스토이 지음 / 연진희 옮김 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/6481fca79c844483 - P59

상상하다 보면 내가 한 행성에 살고 있다는 확신이 다...

상상하다 보면 내가 한 행성에 살고 있다는 확신이 다시금 든다. 이것을 ‘원근 효과perspective effect’라고 한다. 원근 효과는 우주 비행사들이 우주에서 지구를 관찰할 때 경험하는 의식의 인지적 변화를 의미한다.

-알라딘 eBook <일상의 모든 순간이 화학으로 빛난다면> (데보라 가르시아 베요 지음, 강민지 옮김) 중에서 - P213

그때 그 공간에 있었던 사람들 대부분이 ‘스탕달 증후군Stendhal syndrome’을 겪은 것이라고 말할 수 있다. 스탕달 증후군은 극도로 아름다운 것을 감상할 때 나타나는 공황 발작과 같은 생리적 반응으로, 고통과 기쁨을 동시에 느끼게 되는 현상이다.

-알라딘 eBook <일상의 모든 순간이 화학으로 빛난다면> (데보라 가르시아 베요 지음, 강민지 옮김) 중에서 - P219

〈브릴로 박스〉는 포스트모던 시대의 근본적인 주제를 ...

〈브릴로 박스〉는 포스트모던 시대의 근본적인 주제를 다룬다. 바로 진실과 거짓의 경계가 흐려졌다는 사실이다. 확실성의 상실이다. 예술과 현실의 구분은 점점 모호해졌다.

-알라딘 eBook <일상의 모든 순간이 화학으로 빛난다면> (데보라 가르시아 베요 지음, 강민지 옮김) 중에서 - P163

워홀은 ‘용도가 있는’ 물건을 예술로 전환했지만, 쿤스는 ‘쓸모없는 것’을 예술로 바꿨다. 그저 키치한 물건, 쓸데없는 사치품이다. 바로 이 점이 쿤스의 작업에서 물건이 중요한 이유다.

-알라딘 eBook <일상의 모든 순간이 화학으로 빛난다면> (데보라 가르시아 베요 지음, 강민지 옮김) 중에서 - P163

[오늘의 한문장] The Things We Never Say

Artie stood up straight and said, "Because my mother taught me to never discuss sex, politics, or the state of one’s bowels." - P71

˝Do not ever feel that you ar...

"Do not ever feel that you are superior to someone else. Because you are not." He sat down. He held out his finger to the whole class and shook it. "No one is superior to anyone else in this world." - P9

"Do you think there’s any free will in this world?" Artie had been serious; this was something he had been thinking about a lot lately, and his remark to Hoover was in response to the two men’s discussion of the mess in Ukraine after they had spoken about the mess in Israel and Gaza and then they had talked briefly of the upcoming presidential election and how divided was the country they lived in these days. - P14

"Reg used to say, ‘Each man is an island.’ " - P15

Artie’s secret was this: For more than two months, he had been thinking how to kill himself without his wife or son (or students) knowing that he had done so. - P16

All of us live with a huge blind spot before our eyes, meaning that no matter what we think we know we can never fully understand how we appear to others. This was true for Artie Dam. - P18

It was an accretion of loneliness; he understood this as he took off his rubber boots back in the garage. - P26

People die of loneliness. It happens all the time. And he thought: Yes, that was correct. People do die of loneliness, and I am—or will be—one of them. - P33

"People go through things," he said, looking back at her. "Your sads will come and go." - P35

And then Artie felt that he was inside a dark tunnel, and the tunnel was getting smaller, swirling around him faster and faster. - P42

As he thought about this, he understood: I did not want to die, I just did not want to live. - P46

The world was changing. Except that it was not. - P58

So blind we humans are—so blind. To each other and to ourselves, moving through life as though through shadows, putting out a hand in the dark and thinking we have touched someone. And maybe we have, as Artie did with Rhonda Lazarre that day. But mostly we travel through life unsighted, grasping only the smallest details of one another’s selves, including our own. Thinking all the while that we can see. - P59