엄마의 꼼수 덕분에 인류는 얼마간 시간을 벌었지만, 근본 문제를 해결하지는 못했다. 세계는 지금도 오래된 동시에 새로운 문제들을 붙들고 씨름하는 중이다. 산호초를 하얗게 탈색시키는 산성비, 지구를 더 서늘하게 만들어야 할지 말아야 할지에 관한 논쟁, 도무지 끝날 줄 모르는 비난과 책임 돌리기 같은 것들 말이다. 엄마는 부자 나라들이 점점 줄어드는 젊은 노동력을 기계로 대체해 가며 국경을 봉쇄한 사실을 알지 못한다. 부유층과 빈곤층의 격차가 줄곧 악화되기만 한 것도, 전 세계 인구의 극히 일부가 여전히 전 세계 자원의 거의 대부분을 소비하는 것도, 식민주의가 진보라는 이름으로 되살아난 것도 알지 못하기는 마찬가지다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P25

이제 이 행성에는 3000억이 넘는 인간의 의식이 거주한다. 그들은 다 합쳐도 옛 맨해튼보다 더 작은 데이터 센터 수천 곳에 모여 산다. 외딴 정착지에서 육신을 지니고 살아가기를 고집하는 소수의 완고한 거부자들을 제외하면 지구는 이미 야생 상태로 돌아갔다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P28

"지구의 관리인으로 사는 건 우리가 져야 할 윤리적 의무니까요. 지구는 우리가 끼친 온갖 해악에서 겨우 회복하기 시작했어요. 우리가 할 일은 지구를 본모습 그대로 보존하는 거예요."

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P30

한때 나는 싱귤러리티(특이점)가 우리의 온갖 문제들을 해결해 주리라 생각했다. 알고 보니 그건 그저 복잡한 문제의 간단한 꼼수에 지나지 않았다. 우리는 동일한 역사를 공유하지 않는다. 모두가 같은 것을 원하지도 않는다.
결국 나도 엄마와 크게 다르지 않다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P31

내 거대한 마트료시카형 두뇌망에서는 우리 역사의 여러 버전이 재생된다. 이 장대한 연산 속에 존재하는 세계는 하나가 아니라 수십억이고, 각각의 세계마다 수많은 인간 의식이 거주한다. 다만 이들은 이런저런 사소한 방식으로 자극을 받으며 더 나은 경로를 밟아 간다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P38

얼마 안 되는 인구가 행성의 자원을 지나치게 많이 소비하거나 행성의 앞길을 독점적으로 결정하는 일도 일어나지 않는다. 이로써 역사는 보완된다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P38

엄마한테서는 초신성의 잔불 속에서 태어나는 새 별의 빛을 닮은 냄새가 난다. 원시 성운에서 이제 막 태어난 혜성의 냄새 같다.

-알라딘 eBook <은랑전> (켄 리우 지음, 장성주 옮김) 중에서 - P43


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Slowly, the sun sinks into the ocean; slowly, the stars wink to life in the sky. The kite has disappeared among the stars. I imagine the fairy visiting each star to give it a playful kiss. - P365


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The wide lawn spreads out before me almost to the golden surf of the sea, separated by the narrow dark tan band of the beach. The setting sun is bright and warm, the breeze a gentle caress against my arms and face. - P363

I run. Like Snow White through the forest. Like Cinderella as the clock strikes midnight. Like the Monkey King trying to escape the Buddha’s hand. Like Aeneas pursued by Juno’s stormy rage. I unspool the string as a sudden gust of wind makes me squint, my heart thumping in time with my pumping legs. - P363

I look over and see Mom striding across the lawn, her long black hair streaming in the breeze like the kite’s tails. She stops before me, kneels on the grass, wraps me in a hug, squeezing my face against hers. She smells like her shampoo, like summer rain and wildflowers, a fragrance that I get to experience only once every few weeks. - P364

This has always been part of the pattern too: my trying to break their pattern. I can’t help but think there’s a simple solution, something I can do to make it all better. - P364


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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old,
but that one is young.

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Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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Youth! There is nothing like it. It‘s absurd to talk of the ignorance of youth.

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"Yes, life has been exquisite," he murmured,

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"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to any one. It does harm."
  

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As for being poisoned by a book, there is no such thing as that. Art has no influence upon action. It annihilates the desire to act. It is superbly sterile. The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all. But we won‘t discuss literature.

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She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
  

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Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not "Forgive us our sins" but "Smite us for our iniquities" should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

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"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."

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It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.

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A cry of pain and indignation broke from him. He could see no change, save that in the eyes there was a look of cunning and in the mouth the curved wrinkle of the hypocrite. The thing was still loathsome--more loathsome, if possible, than before--and the scarlet dew that spotted the hand seemed brighter, and more like blood newly spilled.

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There was blood on the painted feet, as though the thing had dripped--blood even on the hand that had not held the knife. Confess?

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Through vanity he had spared her. In hypocrisy he had worn the mask of goodness. For curiosity‘s sake he had tried the denial of self. He recognized that now.

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The picture itself--that was evidence

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It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience.

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When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.

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"‘Like the painting of a sorrow,
A face without a heart.‘"
(180p. ch.19) - P180

‘Like the painting of a sorrow... heart‘: Shakespeare, Hamlet (IV. vii).
‘what does it profit a man... his own soul‘: ‘For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?‘ (Mark 8: 36). - P228


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