[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

[오늘의 한문장] 지도 끝의 모험

쿰부의 한쪽은 로 라(Lho La)의 길이 감싸고 있었고 그곳의 구름이 발할라(Valhalla, 북유럽 신화에 나오는 전사한 영웅들이 머무는 궁전-옮긴이)의 깃발처럼 바람을 따라 흘러가고 있었다. - <지도 끝의 모험>, 릭 리지웨이│옮긴이 이영래 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/179633473 - P74

[오늘의 한문장] Frankenstein: The 1818 Text

"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." - P165