최악의 상황은 이제 시작이라는 걸 펄롱은 알았다. 벌...

최악의 상황은 이제 시작이라는 걸 펄롱은 알았다. 벌써 저 문 너머에서 기다리고 있는 고생길이 느껴졌다. 하지만 일어날 수 있는 최악의 일은 이미 지나갔다. 하지 않은 일, 할 수 있었는데 하지 않은 일-평생 지고 살아야 했을 일은 지나갔다. 지금부터 마주하게 될 고통은 어떤 것이든 지금 옆에 있는 이 아이가 이미 겪은 것, 어쩌면 앞으로도 겪어야 할 것에 비하면 아무것도 아니었다. 자기 집으로 가는길을 맨발인 아이를 데리고 구두 상자를 들고 걸어 올라가는 펄롱의 가슴속에서는 두려움이 다른 모든 감정을 압도했으나, 그럼에도 펄롱은 순진한 마음으로 자기들은 어떻게든 해나가리라 기대했고 진심으로 그렇게 믿었다. - P121

[오늘의 한문장] Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; - P28

[오늘의 한문장] Frankenstein : or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday; and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare, and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking. - P5

The event on which this ficti...

The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr Darwin,* and some of the physiological writers of Germany,* as not of impossible occurrence.
I shall not besupposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination;
yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I have not considered myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors.*
The event on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment.
It was recommended by the novelty of the situations which it developes;
and, however impossible as a physical fact, affords a point of view to the imagination for the delineating of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield. - P3

The event on which the intere...

The event on which the interest of the story depends is exempt from the disadvantages of a mere tale of spectres or enchantment. - P21

I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations. - P21

I passed the summer of 1816 in the environs of Geneva. The season was cold and rainy, and in the evenings we crowded around a blazing wood fire, and occasionally amused ourselves with some German stories of ghosts, which happened to fall into our hands. These tales excited in us a playful desire of imitation. Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story, founded on some supernatural occurrence. - P21