읽은 책: "The Strange Order of Things" "Bread Givers"

Antonio Damasio, "The Strange Order of Things: Life,

Feeling, and the making of Cultures" (2018)

 

"One of the key ideas in this book is that minds arise

from interactions of bodies and brains,

not from brains alone." (p. 200)

 

"The substrate of our life is a particular kind of organized

chemistry, a servant to thermodynamics and the imperative

of homeostasis.... [T]hat substrate is essential

to explain who we are." (p. 201)

 

"[F]eelings arose from a series of gradual, body-related

processes, bottom up, from simpler chemical and action

phenomena accumulated and maintained over evolutio....

I suggest that the interweaving of perspectival stance

and fellings provides a possible explanation for how

mental experience arise." (p. 161)

 

"A whole tribe could gather around a campfire, not just

for cooking and eating, but for socializing." (p. 192)

 

 

 

(소설) Anzia Yezierska, "Bread Givers" (1925)

 

"I never knew that there were people glad enough of

life to celebrate the day they were born." (p. 218)

 

"This was death. This was not Mother.... Cold, icy death.

Mother no more.... Where has it gone that light, that

spark, that love that looked into mine? What has it to

do with that cold clay? It's here, here, here in my heart.

She's in me, around me. Not in that clay." (p.253)

[어디고 비슷하게 생각하고 표현하는 사람들은 있다.] 

 

"How that little bit of frendliness had changed the

world fo me! How I could be filled to the brim

with happiness by the sound of a voice, the

smile of a face!" (p. 227)

 

"Because I live alone, I must have my table beautiful.

It's company." (p. 277)