〈공상과학소설 영어로 읽기 _ 랜들 게릿의 관점〉
랜들 게릿(Randall Garrett)의 "Viewpoint"는 1960년 1월호 Astounding Science Fiction에서 발표된 단편 소설이다. 이 이야기는 급속한 정신적 어둠이 난무하고 기억들이 분해되어 영원과 무한 속으로 흩어지며, 주인공 '브룸'이 의식을 되찾는 장면으로 시작한다.
브룸은 자신이 낯선 방에 있는 것을 발견하고, 그가 예전에 감옥에 있었던 기억을 하나씩 끌어온다. 이 과정에서 그는 자신이 이전에 겪었던 어떤 사건들로부터 분명히 시간과 공간적으로 멀어져 있다는 것을 느끼게 된다.
〈Reading Science Fiction in English _ Viewpoint by Randall Garrett〉
"Viewpoint" by Randall Garrett is a short story published in the January 1960 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. The story begins with a scene in which rapid mental darkness abounds, memories disintegrate and scatter into eternity and infinity, and the main character, 'Broom', regains consciousness.
Broom finds himself in an unfamiliar room and brings up memories of his previous time in prison. In this process, he clearly feels that he is distant in time and space from certain events he experienced previously.
Summary
A fearsome thing is a thing you're afraid of?and it has nothing whatever to do with whether others are afraid, nor with whether it is in fact dangerous. It's your view of the matter that counts!
There was a dizzy, sickening whirl of mental blackness?not true blackness, but a mind-enveloping darkness that was filled with the multi-colored little sparks of thoughts and memories that scattered through the darkness like tiny glowing mice, fleeing from something unknown, fleeing outwards and away toward a somewhere that was equally unknown; scurrying, moving, changing?each half recognizable as it passed, but leaving only a vague impression behind.
