Levels of Life. Julian Barnes, 2013

Levels of Life. Julian Barnes, 2013

 

3部作

그다지 긴박하진 않다. 비행의 역사 초기 1863년~1882년 , 영국인 Colonel Fred Burnaby, 프랑스인 Felix 등 유럽인들이 열기구에 몸을 싣고 영불해협 횡단을 시도한다.

 

The Sin of Height

p3

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed. People may not notice at the time, but that doesn’t matter. The world has been changed nonetheless.

 

p27

I think it was the Earthrise that really kind of got everybody in the solar plexus…We were looking back at our planet, the place where we evolved.

 

One the Level

P55

Oh, for God’s sake, Madame Sarah. You know what I am going to say. I cannot bandy metaphor any longer. I am not the first man who has fallen in love with you on sight, nor, I fear, will I be the last. But I am in love with you as I have never been before. We are kindred spirits, this I know.

 

 

The Loss of Depth

줄리안 반즈(1946년생)는 부인 Pat Kavanagh(남아공 출신)와 1979년 결혼.,2008년 사별한다.

P67

Love gives us a similar feeling of faith and invincibility. And sometimes, perhaps often, it works. We dodge between bullets as Sarah Bernhardt claimed to dodge between raindrops. But there is always the sudden spear-thrust to the neck. (실제로 Fered Burnaby는 수단에서 현지인들과 전투 중 목에 창을 맞고 전사한다) Because every love story is a potential grief story.

 

P92

Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice

 

그렇다. 思婦曲.

 

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