[오늘의 한문장] The Picture of Dorian Gray

It was on the ninth of November, the eve of his own thirty-eighth birthday, as he often remembered afterwards.
  

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[오늘의 한문장] The Picture of Dorian Gray

He felt keenly conscious of how barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment. He knew that the senses, no less than the soul, have their spiritual mysteries to reveal.

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*It was a novel without a plo...

*It was a novel without a plot:
Huysmans‘s <A rebours> which was regarded as one of the most significant writings of literary Decadence in France. Huysmans‘s novel features a wealthy aesthete, Duc Jean des Esseintes, who sequesters himself in his luxurious home in order to savour erotic fantasies and sensuous experiences that generate sensations that he fears he will not find in reality.(106p. ch.10) - P211

*nine large-paper copies of the first edition:
Huysmans‘s <A rebours> was published by the Parisian publisher Charpentier in a standard edition, as well as an exclusive edition of ten copies on Dutch handmade paper and ten copies on Japanese handmade paper.
*the hero were strangely blended:
implicitly, Des Esseintes in Huysmans‘s <A rebours>.
*that somewhat grotesque dread of mirrors... still water:
Des Esseintes in Huysmans‘s <A rebours> has no such dread; in chapter 1, the narrator states that Des Esseintes designed a ‘boudoir‘ or bedroom that featured the following furnishing, textures, and scents: "This bedroom, where mirrors mirrored one another and reflected an infinite series of pink boudoirs on the walls, had been celebrated among the prostitutes, who loved to soak their nakedness in this bath of rosy warmth, perfumed by the minty aroma coming from the wood of the furniture‘ (Huysmans, 10). (108p. ch.11) - P212

*French school of Symbolistes...

*French school of Symbolistes:
known in English as Symbolists; a literary movement, inspired by the work of Baudelaire, headed by a group of French poets, such as Jules Laforgue (1860-87), Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91), and Paul Valéry (1871-1945). The Symbolists aimed at producing poems that represented correspondences between the senses by emphasizing colour, harmony, and tone.(107p. ch.11) - P211

The style in which it was written was that curious jewelled style, vivid and obscure at once, full of argot* and of archaisms, of technical expressions and of elaborate paraphrases, that characterizes the work of some of the finest artists of the French school of Symbolistes.*
There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids,*and as subtle in colour. The life of the senses was described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.(107p. ch.11) - P107

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

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[오늘의 한문장] To Kill a Mockingbird

WHEN HE WAS nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. When it healed, and Jem’s fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right-angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh. He couldn’t have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt. - P3