[일반] 르카레 비유가 특이해서 좋긴 한데

[Pie.(joohong2022)]

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[허접초단(203.152)]

It was a game. A silly balancing trick of ideas; it had nothing to do with him or any real person. Why do you bother yourself with us?Go back to Whitehall and look for more spies on your drawing boards.It`s an old illness you suffer from and I have seen many victims of it. The mind becomes seperated from the body;it thinks without reality,rules a paper kingdom and devises without emotion the ruin

[허접초단(203.152)]

of its paper victims.But sometimes the division between your world and ours is incomplete; the files grow head and arms and legs, and that`s a terrible moment, isn`t it?The names have families as well as records, and human motives to explain the sad little dossiers and their make-believe sins. When that happens I am sorry for you. It`s like the State and the People. The State is a dream too,

[허접초단(203.152)]

a symbol of nothing at all, an emptiness, a mind without a body, a game played with clouds in the sky. But States make war,don`t they,and imprison people? To dream in doctrines-how tidy! My husband and I have been tidied now, haven`t we? She was looking at him steadily. Her accent was more noticeable now. 대화 부분만 발췌해서 적어봤어. 번역본이랑 비교하면서 읽어봐. 아무래도 번역하면서 좀 어색해진게 아닐까?