별

​고흐가 동생 테오에게 쓴 편지 중
별과 죽음에 대한 구절을 친구가 보내줬다.

Why, I say to myself, should the spots of light in the firmament be less accessible to us than the black spots on the map of France.
Just as we take the train to go to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to go to a star. What’s certainly true in this argument is that while alive, we cannot go to a star, any more than once dead we’d be able to take the train. So it seems to me not impossible that cholera, the stone, consumption, cancer are celestial means of locomotion, just as steamboats, omnibuses and the railway are terrestrial ones.
To die peacefully of old age would be to go there on foot.

"늙어서 편안하게 죽는다는 것은
별까지 걸어간다는 것이지."




한참을 들여다보고 있으니
별이 바람에 스치는 인생이 떠오르고
언니네이발관의 '인생은 금물'이 들려온다.

"살아간다는 것은
별이 되어가는 것이라네."

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