[오늘의 한문장] 모르그가의 살인사건 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (착한문고 영어소설 108)

The faculty of re-solution is possibly much invigorated by mathematical study, and especially by that highest branch of it which, unjustly, and merely on account of as retrograde operations, has been called, as if par excellence, analysis. Yet to calculate is not in itself to analyse. A chess-player, for example, does the one without effort at the other. - P11

[오늘의 한문장] 모르그가의 살인사건 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (착한문고 영어소설 108)

He derives pleasure from even the most trivial occupations bringing his talent into play. He is fpnd of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preaternatural. His results, brought about by the very soul and essence of method, have, in truth, the whole air of intuition.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 모르그가의 살인사건 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (착한문고 영어소설 108)

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their efforts. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
- P11

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE...

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

By Edgar Allan Poe

What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when himself among women, although puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.

-- Sir Thomas Browne.
- P11

[오늘의 한문장] 모르그가의 살인사건 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (착한문고 영어소설 108)

■ 저자 소개

에드거 앨런 포(Edgar Allan Poe,1809~1849)는 미국의 시인이자, 단편소설가, 편집자이자 비평가이며, 미국 낭만주의 문학을 대표하는 인물의 하나입니다. 그는 공포소설과 시로 유명하며, 미국문학사상 단편소설의 개척자이자, 추리소설의 선구자이기도 합니다. 포는 40세에 사망하였으며, 사망 원인은 미스터리로 남겨져 있습니다.
- P3