W. Stegner, "Crossing To Safety" 에서

 

"From her point of view, does it make any difference

whether she dies Thursday instead of Saturday? What

right has anybody to tell her she can't spend her last

hours roller-skating, if that's what she wants?" (p 308)

 

"You do have a chance. Even if it's only ten percent,

even if it's only five, why not take it? Are you so tired of

living? Are you so tired of us?"

   For a longtime they looked at each other. Finally she

shook her head. "You wouldn't want the five or ten

percent they might save. Neither would I." (p 291)

 

It[friendship] is a relationship that has no formal shape,

there are no rules or obligations or bonds as in marriage

or the family, it is held together by neither law nor

property nor blood, there is no glue in it but mutual liking.

It is therefore rare. (p 102)

 

 

(책 표지 사진은, 포스트 "책 읽는 즐거움: Crossing To Safety" 에)

 

 

 

"Crossing To Safety" (1987)은 "Angle of Repose" (1971) 에 이어

두 번째로 읽은 Wallace Stegner 의 소설인데, 지난 주에는 그의 또 다른

좋은 소설 "The Spectator Bird" (1976)를 읽었다.