[오늘의 한문장] Les Miserables (Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood)

‘PREFACE

So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine destiny;
so long as the three great problems of the century—the
degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved; so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;—in other words, and with a still wider significance,
so long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Misérables cannot fail to be of use.
HAUTEVILLE HOUSE, 1862.’

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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
이 자료는 저작권에 의해 보호됩니다. - P36

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

He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish. I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks. Light, feeling, and sense, will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness.
Some years ago, when the images which this world affords first opened upon me, when I felt the cheering warmth of summer, and heard the rustling of the leaves and the chirping of the birds, and these were all to me, I should have wept to die; now it is my only consolation. Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? - P190

My present situation was one ...

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it modelled my feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion. - P171

‘By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and by the spirits that preside over thee, I swear to pursue that dæmon, who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish inmortal conflict. For this purpose I will preserve my life: to execute this dear revenge, will I again behold the sun, and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes for ever. And I call on you, spirits of the dead; and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me.‘ - P172

My life, as it passed thus, was indeed hateful to me, and it was during sleep alone that I could taste joy. O blessed sleep! often, when most miserable, I sank to repose, and my dreams lulled me even to rapture. The spirits that guarded me had provided these moments, or rather hours, of happiness, that I might retain strength to fulfil my pilgrimage. - P173

What his feelings were whom I pursued, I cannot know.
Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees, or cut in stone, that guided me, and instigated my fury. ‘My reign is not yet over,‘ (these words were legible in one of these inscriptions); ‘you live, and my power is complete. Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive. You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat, and be refreshed. Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives; but many hard and miserable hours must you endure, until that period shall arrive.‘ - P174

‘Prepare! your toils only begin: wrap yourself in furs, and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred.‘ - P174

We are still surrounded by mountains of ice, still in immi-nent danger of being crushed in their conflict. The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation.
Frankenstein has daily declined in health: a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes; but he is exhausted, and, when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness. - P182

You were hereafter to be hailed as the benefactors of your species; your name adored, as belonging to brave men who encountered death for honour and the benefit of mankind. - P183

Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.‘* - P183

The die is cast; I have consented to return, if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess, to bear this injustice with patience. - P184

My duties towards my fellow-creatures had greater claims to my attention, because they included a greater proportion of happiness or misery. Urged by this view, I refused, and I did right in refusing, to create acompanion for the first creature. - P185

His voice became fainter as he spoke; and at length, ex-hausted by his effort, he sunk into silence. About half an hour afterwards he attempted again to speak, but was unable; he pressed my hand feebly, and his eyes closed for ever, while their radiation of a gentle smile passed away from his lips. - P186

‘That is also my victim!‘ he exclaimed; ‘in his murder my crimes are consummated; the miserable series of my beingis wound to its close! Oh, Frankenstein! generous and self-devoted being! what does it avail that I now ask thee to pardon me? I, who irretrievably destroyed thee by destroying all thou lovedst. Alas! he is cold; he may not answer me.‘ - P187

‘Oh, it is not thus-not thus,‘ interrupted the being; ‘yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions. Yet I seek not a fellow-feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find.
When I first sought it, it was the love of virtue, the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed, that I wished to be participated.
But now, that virtue has become to me a shadow, and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair, in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone, while my sufferings shall endure: when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory. Once my fancy was soothed with dreams of virtue, of fame, and of enjoyment.
Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings, who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of bringing forth. I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.
But now vice. has degraded me beneath the meanest animal. No crime, no mischief, no malignity, no misery, can be found comparable to mine.
When I call over the frightful catalogue of my deeds, I cannot believe that I am he whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendant visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness.
But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am quite alone. - P189

[오늘의 한문장] 지구 생물체는 항복하라

"그걸 대체 왜 먹었습니까?"
"아니 그냥, 잠결에 이렇게 보니까 뭐가 여기로 오고 있어서…………."
"그렇다고 뭔지도 모르고 그걸 먹어요?"
"뭔지도 모르긴요. 문어잖아요."
"무슨 근거로 그게 문어라고 확신했습니까? 잠결이었다면서요?"
"그냥, 딱 보니까 문어같이 생겼던데……
"그렇다고 그걸 먹습니까? 대학교 건물 복도에 문어가 돌아다니는 게 이상하다고 생각 안 해봤어요? - P10

He could not live under the h...

He could not live under the horrors that were accumulated around him; an apoplectic fit was brought on, and in a few days he died in my arms. - P168

But liberty had been a useless gift to me had I not, as I awakened to reason, at the same time awakened to revenge. As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect on their cause-the monster whom I had created, the miserable dæmon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruction. I was possessed by a maddening rage when I thought of him, and desired and ardently prayed that I might have him within my grasp to wreak a great and signal revenge on his cursed head. - P168

‘Man,‘ I cried, ‘how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wis-dom! Cease; you know not what it is you say."
I broke from the house angry and disturbed, and retired to meditate on some other mode of action. - P170

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thoughtwas swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury; revengealone endowed me with strength and composure; it modelledmy feelings, and allowed me to be calculating and calm, at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion. - P171

‘But soon,‘ he cried, with sad and solemn enthusiasm,
‘I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt.
Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.
I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly, and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
The light of that conflagration will fade away; my ashes will be swept into the sea by the winds. My spirit will sleep in peace;or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.‘ - P191