Essays · 1907
Through the Magic Door
마법의 문을 지나서
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Doyle's informal reflections on books and reading as he walks through his own library. He discusses favourite authors and works.
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“Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.”
Through the Magic Door · Arthur Conan Doyle
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The English original with a Korean translation, one sentence at a time. In the app you can pick from 21 languages.
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns.
나는 당신의 책장이 얼마나 보잘것없든, 그것이 장식하는 방이 얼마나 초라하든 상관하지 않습니다.
Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.
그 방의 문을 닫고 바깥 세상의 모든 근심을 차단한 다음, 위대한 죽은 자들의 편안한 품으로 돌아가십시오. 그러면 마법의 문을 통해 근심과 번뇌가 더 이상 따라오지 못하는 아름다운 땅으로 들어가게 됩니다.
You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you.
당신은 천박하고 추잡한 모든 것을 뒤에 남겨 두셨습니다.
There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks.
거기에는 당신의 고귀하고 침묵하는 동지들이 대열을 맞춰 기다리고 있습니다.
Pass your eye down their files.
그들의 파일을 훑어보십시오.
Choose your man.
당신의 남자를 선택하십시오.
And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland.
그런 다음 당신은 그에게 손을 들어 올리기만 하면 됩니다. 그러면 당신과 그는 함께 꿈나라로 가게 됩니다.
Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it.
책들이 줄지어 있는 것은 분명 섬뜩한 느낌을 주겠지만, 익숙함 때문에 그러한 느낌이 무뎌진 것은 아닙니다.
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Book details
- Title
- Through the Magic Door (마법의 문을 지나서)
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- First published
- 1907
- Genre
- Essays
- Original language
- English
- Translations in app
- 21 languages
- Price
- Free
