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>하루키의 Sputnik Sweetheart 중에서
Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all?
Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to each others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?I turned faceup on the slab of stone, gazed at the sky, and thought about all the man-made satellites spinning around the earth. The horizon was still etched in a faint glow, and stars began to blink on in the deep, wine-colored sky.
I gazed among them for the light of a satellite, but it was too bright out to spot one with the naked eye. The sprinking of stars looked nailed to the spot, unmoving. I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely metal souls in the unimpeded darkness of space, they meet, pass each other, and part, never to meet again. No words passing between them. No promises to keep.
한국에 있을 때도 소주는 냄새가 역해서 한,두잔 밖에 못했는데
오늘은 이상하게 소주 한잔 했으면 하는 생각이 자꾸 나네요.해질녘에 유투브에서 이승철 노래만 계속 반복해서 틀어놓고 있자니,
특정하게 그리운 얼굴도 없는데 그냥 누군가가 그리운 마음? 괜히 마음 저 낮은 곳에서 부터 뭔가 치밀고 올라오는 그런 느낌이 참 당혹스럽네요.