In general, however, the huma...

In general, however, the human ability to adjust is beyond belief. - P19

Consequently, men are likely to accept and even enjoy any large, male society such as a team, an army, or a dorm, more than women do a similar female society. - P19

What was revealed there defied the validity of our usual social judgments. The ordinarily accepted symbols of status—money, family, education, sophistication—were totally irrelevant here. - P23

Perhaps the greatest value of this experience, as of almost all war experiences, was that we worked our way through the false barriers of the world at large to reach our common humanity. In time, we were able to see our neighbors for what they were rather than for what they had. - P24

The core of its strength was what I might call the "mentality of decision." - P27

[오늘의 한문장] Shantung Compound

The one redeeming feature of this dismal spectacle was that it provided invaluable articles for the kind of life we had now obviously to live. - P10

<Something Sweet from Moon...

<Something Sweet from Moonshine>

Apple Pandowdy!

These kids,
Sheriff Robertson said,
ought to have something sweet to
wash down their dusty milk,
And so we did.

-February 1935 - P116

<November Dust>

I walk with Daddy around the farm
and see that
the pond is holding its own,
it will keep Ma’s apple trees alive,
nourish her garden,
help the grass around it grow,
enough to lie in and dream
if I feel like it,
and stand in,
and wait for Mad Dog
when he comes past once a week
on his way from Amarillo,
where he works for the radio.

November 1935 - P211

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-알라딘 eBook <스파이라> (김아인 지음) 중에서 - P6

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