조지프 콘래드 - 편지 선집 (Joseph Conrad - The Selected Letters of J. C. Cambridge)

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(Edited By Laurence Davies)

* 'Life knows us not and we do not know life - we don't know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever and of the other half each man understands each word after the fashion of his own folly and conceit.' Language is evasive, its referents ephemeral, its claims to transcendental power false. Such meanings as it has are arbitrary, subject to individual prejudice and whim. 'Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore, thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of yesterday is as shasowy as the hope of to-morrow - only the string of my platitudes seems to have no end.' Yet he didn't string platitudes he skewered them. (xxxii) (실제 편지89)

(10-11) 1885년 12월 19일 - 영국 총선 결과. 사회주의의 확산에 대한 두려움.

 the International Socialist Association are triumphan, and every diereputable ragamuffin in Europe feels that the day of universal brotherhood, despoliation and disorder is coming apace, and nurses day-dreams of well-plenished pockets amongst the ruin of all that is respectable, venerable and holy.

(12) Socialism must inevitably end in Caesarism!