그냥... 최대한 자유롭게...
by 제임스
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2009년 05월 04일
I have a small canker sore in my mouth.
# by 제임스 | 2009/05/04 09:32 | 갈겨쓰기 | 트랙백 | 덧글(0)
2009년 04월 09일
1953년, 72세였던 피카소의 마지막 연인이 된 자클린 로크는
커다랗고 짙은 눈망울을 지닌 지중해 풍의 여인이었다.
자클린은 1961년 피카소와 비밀 결혼식을 올렸다.
서른 살의 젊은 여인이 어떻게 곧 여든이 되는 사람과
결혼을 할 수 있냐는 말에 그녀는 대답하였다.
" 나는 이 세상에서 가장 아름다운 청년과 결혼했어요.
오히려 늙은 사람은 나였지요"
그녀는 피카소에게 헌신적이고 절대적인 사랑을 바친다.
피카소가 죽고 난 며칠 뒤 그녀도 그를 따라 생을 마감하였다.
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세상의 모든 사랑엔 그들만의 독특한 사연이 있다.
우리는 다만 사랑하는 이들을 바라볼 뿐이다.
때로는 부러워하며 때로는 질투하며......
# by 제임스 | 2009/04/09 10:41 | 갈겨쓰기 | 트랙백 | 덧글(0)
2009년 01월 12일
Erskine Caldwell
1903-1987
The Strawberry Season
Early in the spring when the strawberries began to ripen, everybody went from place to place helping the farmers gather them. If it had been a good season for the berries and if there were many berries to pick, there would sometimes be as many as thirty-five or forty people in one field. Some men brought their families along, going from one farm to the next as fast as the berries could be gathered. They slept in barns or any place they could find. And, because the season was so short, everybody had to work from sunrise to sunset.
We used to have the best times picking strawberries. There were always a lot of girls there and it was great fun teasing them. If one of them stooped over a little too far and showed the least bit of herself, whoever saw her first shouted as loudly as he could. The rest of us would take up the yee and pass it all over the field.
딸기가 익기 시작하는 초봄이면 모두가 나와 이 밭 저 밭 구석구석을 따라다니며 딸기 따는 농부를 도왔다. 제철이기도 하거니와 여물대로 여문 딸기가 지천이게 되면, 한 밭에 종종 서른 대여섯 명의 사람들이 붙어 있곤 했다. 어떤 남정네들은 서둘러 딸기를 따기 위해 집안 식솔들까지 데리고 나와 이 농장 저 농장을 훑고 다녔다. 이들은 헛간이건 아니면 다른 곳이건 간에 찾을 수 있는 곳이면 어디에서라도 잠을 청했다. 게다가 딸기를 따는 철이 짧았기 때문에 모두가 해가 뜰 무렵부터 해질녘이 될 때까지 일을 해왔던 것이다.
딸기를 따는 철은 우리 생에 가장 멋진 나날이었다. 딸기를 딸 즈음이면 수많은 소녀들이 모이곤 했는데, 그네들을 놀리는 것 또한 쏠쏠한 재미가 있었다. 그 소녀들 중 누구 하나가 딸기 따는 것을 들여다보려다가 행여 은밀한 부분을 요만큼이라도 들어내기라도 하게 되면, 이것을 가장 먼저 목격한 소년은 목청이 다해라 소리소리 지르곤 했다. 그러면 나머지 소년들도 맞장구를 치며 소리를 질러댔고, 이들의 목소리는 온 밭에 울려 퍼졌다.
The other girls would giggle among themselves and pull their skirts down. The girl who had caused the shouting would blush and hurry away to the packing shed with a tray of baskets. By the time she returned some other girl had stooped over too far and everybody was laughing at her.
There was a girl named Fanny Forbes who was always showing some of herself by stooping too far. Everybody liked Fanny.
Another thing we had a lot of fun out of was what we called "strawberry-slapping." One of us would slip up behind a girl while she was stooping over filling her baskets and drop a big juicy ripe strawberry down her dress. It usually stopped midway of her back and there we slapped it good and hard. the mashed strawberry made a mess. The red juice oozed through the cloth and made a big round stain. If the berry was against the skin, it was even worse. Very few girls minded that though. Everybody wore their old clothes in the fields and it did not matter about the stain. The worst part was being laughed at. Everybody stopped picking berries to laugh. When that was over, everybody went back to work and forgot until somebody else got strawberry-slapped. We had a lot of fun picking berries.
Fanny Forbes got more strawberry-slappings than any other girl. All the boys and men liked her and she never became angry. Fanny was good-looking, too.
One day I went to a field where I knew the strawberry crop was good. It was a small field of only two or three acres and few people ever bothered to go there. I decided to go before somebody else did. When I reached the field, Fanny was finishing the first two rows. She had thought of having the whole field to herself, just as I thought of doing. We did not mind the other being there as long as no one else came.
"Hello, Fanny," I said.
"What made you think of coming over here to Mr. Gunby's place today?"
"The same thing that made you think of it, I guess," she answered, blowing the sand off a handful berries and putting them into her mouth.
We started off side by side. Fanny was a fast picker and it was all I could do to keep up with her. About an hour before noon the sun came out and the sky became cloudless. The berries were ripening almost as fast as we could gather them. Fanny filled a dozen boxes from her next row. She could pick all day and never have a single piece of vine among her berries. She used only the thumb and the next two fingers, making a kind of triangle that grasped the berry close to the stem and lifted it off. She never mashed a berry like some people were forever doing.
I had never before noticed it in any other field, but today Fanny was barelegged. In the afternoon it was much cooler without stockings, of course, and it was the best way to keep from wearing them out in the knees. She saw me looking at her bare legs and smiled just a little. I wanted to tell her how nice-looking they were but I did not dare to.
The mid-afternoon was even hotter than it had been at twelve o'clock. The slight breeze we had felt in the morning was gone and the sun hung over us like a burning glass. Fanny's legs were burned brown.
Before I knew what I was doing I stole up behind Fanny and dropped a great big juicy berry down the open neck of her dress. It frightened her at first. Believing that I was several rows away she thought it was a bug or insect of some kind that had fallen down the opening of her dress. When she jumped up and saw me standing behind her, however, she laughed and reached down into the bosom of her waist for the berry. I was certain I saw it under her dress. Before she could reach it with her hand I slapped it as hard as I could. I thought surely she would laugh as she had always done when somebody strawberry-slapped her, but this time she did not laugh. She sat down quickly, hugging herself tightly. I then realized something was wrong. She looked up at me and there were tears in her eyes. I fell on my knees beside her. I had slapped her breasts.
"What's the matter, Fanny?" I begged.
"Did I hurt you? I didn't mean to. Honest, I didn't mean to."
"I know you didn't mean to," she said, the tears falling on her lap, "but it did hurt. You mustn't hit me there."
"I'll never do it again, Fanny. I promise I won't."
"It's all right now," she smiled painfully. "It still hurts a little though."
Her head fell on my shoulder. I put my arms around her. She wiped the tears from her eyes.
"It's all right now," she repeated. "It will stop hurting soon."
She lifted her head and smiled at me. Her large round blue eyes were the shade of the sky when the sun has began to rise.
"I'll never strawberry-slap you again as long as I live, Fanny," I pleaded, hoping she would forgive me.
Fanny unbuttoned the dress down to her waist. The berry was mashed beneath her undercloth. The scarlet stain looked like a morning-glory against the white cloth.
"I'll have to unfasten this too, to get the berry out," she said.
"Let me get it," I urged.
"You don't want the juice all over your fingers."
She unfastened the undergarment. The berry lay crushed between her breasts. They were milk-white and the center of each was stained like a mashed strawberry. Hardly knowing what I was doing I hugged her tightly in my arms and kissed her lips for a long time. The crushed strawberry fell to the ground beside us.
When we got up, the sun was setting and earth was becoming cool. We found our boxes and baskets of berries and walked across the field to the barn. When we got there, Mr. Gunby counted them and paid us the money we had earned.
We went through the barnyard to the front of the house and stood at the gate looking at each other for several minutes. Neither of us said anything. Fanny had once said she had never had a sweet-heart. I wish she had been mine.
Fanny turned and went down the road in one direction and I went up the road in another. It was the end of the strawberry season.
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# by 제임스 | 2009/01/12 14:22 | 한 줄 독서록-1000권 | 트랙백 | 덧글(0)
2008년 12월 31일
계양산 등산로 안내
내일 새해 해맞이 산행을 계획 중이다.
집에서 가까운 계양산이나 가볼까?
내일은 좀 춥지만 날씨는 쾌청하다니 실망하진 않을 것 같고
아침 해뜨는 시각이 7시 40분경이라니 그리 이른 시간도 아니다.
집에서 6시에 출발하면 여유가 있을 듯...
# by 제임스 | 2008/12/31 18:47 | 나가놀기 | 트랙백(1) | 덧글(2)
2008년 12월 29일
WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!!!!
행복한 미소 가득한 새해가 되시길 바랍니다!! ^^
# by 제임스 | 2008/12/29 13:38 | 갈겨쓰기 | 트랙백 | 덧글(4)
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