[100자평] 스파이라

[전자책] 스파이라 - 2024 제7회 한국과학문학상 장편 대상작
김아인 지음 / 허블 / 2024년 9월

오시이 마모루 <공각기동대>가 그리는 디스토피아가 연상된다. 전뇌의 네트워크 세계가 과연 인간 세계를 대신할 수 있을지 이 소설은 다시 의문을 갖게 한다.

And a sense both of complete ...

And a sense both of complete change and of utter reality came over me. Suddenly I felt what it was like to be inside something, and stuck there; and what is more, inside an internment camp from which one could not get out for any reason whatsoever, a camp run under the iron discipline of an enemy army. - P7

The reality in which I had now to exist seemed barely large enough to stand on, let alone large enough to be alive in. - P7

[오늘의 한문장] Out of the Dust (Scholastic Gold)

<Outlined by Dust>
He stares at me
as I empty the wash water at the roots
of Ma’s apple trees.
…
He stares at me,
maybe he’s looking for Ma.
He won’t find her.
I look like him,
I stand like him,
I walk across the kitchen floor
with the long-legged walk
of his.
-January 1935 - P115

[오늘의 한문장] The Stationery Shop

Roya’s mother had always said that our fate is written on our foreheads when we’re born. It can’t be seen, can’t be read, but it’s there in invisible ink all right, and life follows that fate. No matter what. - P50

[오늘의 한문장] Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families

It seems to me curious, not to say obscene and thoroughly terrifying, that it could occur to an association of human beings drawn together through need and chance and for profit into a company, an organ of journalism, to pry intimately into the lives of an undefended and appallingly damaged group of human beings, - P7