
English: 
I'll tell you a little story. This is in my book
So I had this landlord in Montreal. He lived next door to me, and he was an ex-Hell's Angel's biker.
he'd spend a lot of time in prison and his wife had borderline personality disorder and she committed suicide when I lived there and
He was a rough guy, and he was at québécois, and he spoke *french dialect". Which I could hardly understand and
He didn't really know what to make of me, and I didn't really know what to make of him
But we got along
You know, I was very careful talking to him as you might imagine
but
But, I was, it was very... and we went over, my wife and I went over there, and we had the spaghetti dinner one
night, and we sort of communicated
And I bought a poster from him because he made these wooden posters that had neon on them
And that's how he made a living he'd kind of trained himself to be a bit of an electronics guy
So he made these things and he was trying to quit drinking and we talked about that. He was a lot older than me
He was like 20 years older than me. I was about 25 at this point and

Korean: 
에피소드 하나를 알려드리죠. 제 책에도 실려있습니다.
몬트리올에 있을때 이야기입니다. 제 집주인은 바로 옆집에 살고있었고 그는 예전에 Hells Angels 
바이커였죠.
그는 감옥에서 긴 시간을 보냈고 경계성 인격장애를 가진 그의 아내는 자살을 했습니다. 제가 그곳에서 살고 
있을때 일이었죠.
그는 거친 남자였고, 퀘벡에 있었기 때문에 제가 알아듣지 못하는 말을 하기도 했습니다.
우리는 서로를 어떻게 대해야 하는지 잘 몰랐지만 그럭저럭 잘 지냈습니다.
여러분의 예상대로 나는 그와 얘기를 할때는 늘 조심스러웠습니다.
그날 저녁은 나와 내 아내가 그의 집에 스파게티를 먹으러 갔습니다.
우리는 대화를 나눴고 나는 그가 직접 만든 네온이 달린 나무 포스터를 샀죠.
예전에 전공을 배웠던 그는 이런걸 만들수 있었고 이런걸로 돈을 벌었습니다.
그리고 그는 술을 끊으려고 하고 있었고 우린 금주에 대해서도 이야기를 나눴죠.
그는 나보다 나이가 훨씬 많았습니다.
아마 20살쯤 더 많았을겁니다. 저는 그때 25살이었고요.

English: 
we got along pretty well, but
Every now and then he'd go out and get - and drink and he could really drink
You know like he was one of these guys who could drink like
60 beer and you think well no one can drink that much and you're wrong. I studied alcohol for like ten years. Some of my
subjects' fathers drank 40 ounces of vodka a day and had been doing it for 20 years
So you can drink a lot and he could drink a lot and - what would happen
he was trying to not drink, but he'd go out and go on a binge
And then he'd be going for like three days, and he'd drink up all his money, and then we'd hear him out in the backyard
howling at the moon with this little little ugly dog he had you know and
He'd howling the dog would howl and he'd howl and the dog would howl and and it was rather unsettling and made my wife nervous
and *laughter*
and
But worse, you know now, and then he'd come to the door at like, 3:00 in the morning,
eh, he'd knock on the door, and he'd be standing there and
I

Korean: 
아무튼 우리는 잘 지냈습니다.
하지만 그는 가끔은 술을 마셨고, 정말 많이 마셨습니다.
그는 맥주를 60병은 마실수 있는 사람이었고, 당신은 아마 그건 말도 안된다고 생각하겠지만, 그건 당신이 
틀렸습니다.
저는 알콜에 대해 10년동안 공부했고 그중 몇몇 위인들은 20년동안 매일 40온스의 보드카를 마셨습니다.
그러니 당신도 술을 엄청나게 마실수 있습니다. 그도 그런 사람이었고요.
아무튼 그는 술을 끊으려고 했습니다. 하지만 그는 또다시 나가서 흥청망청 했고
그렇게 3일이 지난 후, 그는 술에 돈을 다 써버리고 돌아왔죠. 그리고 우리는 뒷마당에서 그와 그의 못생긴 
강아지가 하울링 하는것을 들을수 있었습니다.
그가 울면, 개가 따라서 울고, 또 그가 울면, 개가 울고...상당히 불편한 소리였고 내 아내는 불안해 
했습니다.
그리고 더 심각한 일이 생겼죠. 새벽 3시에 그가 우리집을 찾아온 겁니다.
그는 문 앞에서 서서 노크를 했습니다.

English: 
don't know how much experience you've had with rough guys who are alcoholic and who were drunk, but it's
they can be
Upright and
Unconscious at the same time, and so that was the state that he was in, you know, he'd be just swaying.
He'd asked me if I would like to buy his toaster or his microwave
because he needed some money to keep drinking, and, you know, I didn't really want to buy his toaster or his microwave, but when
the Ex-Hell's Angel *French-dialect*-speaking
sixty beer drunk,
biker shows up at your door at 3:00 in the morning and offers you to sell -offers to sell you his microwave
Hah, the easiest thing is to say, "I really need a microwave!"
so
So, you know, I bought the microwave and the toaster and some other things, but then... *laughter*
But then my wife talked to me and she liked
My landlord, you know?

Korean: 
여러분이 술에 취한 거친 알콜중독자를 상대해본 경험이 얼마나 있는지 모르겠지만
그는 의식이 없는 채로 서있었습니다. 정말 그런 상태였어요. 그런 상태로 비틀거리고 있었죠.
그는 나한테 그의 토스트기와 전자렌지를 사지 않겠냐고 물었습니다.
왜냐하면 술을 마시기 위해 돈이 필요했거든요. 그리고 나는 정말 그의 토스트기나 전자렌지를 갖고싶지 
않았습니다.
하지만 새벽 3시에 맥주 60병을 마시고 취해버린 전 Hells Angels 바이커가 당신에게 전자렌지를 
살것을 권한다면,
제일 쉬운 대답은 “정말 전자렌지가 필요했어요!” 일겁니다.
예...그래서 나는 전자렌지와 토스트기, 그리고 몇가지 물건들을 더 샀습니다.
그후에 내 아내가 나에게 말을 하더군요. 그녀는 집주인을 좋아했습니다.

Korean: 
물론 두려워하긴 했지만, 그래도 좋아했죠. 아내가 나에게 말하더군요.
“당신 더 이상 물건을 사주면 안돼. 이건 그한테도 좋은 일이 아니야.”
그래서 저는 생각했죠. 오 이것 참 재미있는 문제군. 그럼 내가 어떻게 해야하지?
새벽 3시에 “아니요, 난 전자렌지가 필요없어요” 라고 대답하는건 정답이 아닌것 같은데
어느 한번은 그가 나를 그의 750혼다에 태웠습니다. 뒷좌석에요.
그는 그의 소굴을 보여주고 싶어했습니다. 아마 그의 단골집이겠죠.
나는 그의 아내의 헬멧을 썼지만 맞지 않았고, 대충 머리에 얹어버렸습니다.
내가 바이크에 타자 그가 말했죠.
“만약 경찰이 우릴 쫓는다면, 난 멈추지 않을거야.”
그리고 우리는 생로랑 시내에 있는 바같은 곳들을 갔습니다. 굉장히 거친 곳이었죠.
그날밤, 그는 4번의 싸움에 휘말렸습니다. 그는 거친 남자였죠.

English: 
Even though she was afraid of him. She liked him, and and she said, "You can't buy anymore...
Anymore appliances, because it's not good for him," and I thought, huh,
That's an interesting problem. You know? So what the hell am I going to do about this? Because
"No, I don't want to buy your microwave," just doesn't seem to be the right answer at 3:00 in the morning
so
So, one time he took me out on his 750 Honda, and he put me on the back of it.
He wanted to show me his lair,
I guess, his hangouts, and I got his wife's helmet on, but it didn't fit it
just set on the top of my head, and he said - I got on the bike - and he said "If the cops
chase us we're not stopping." *laughter*
Then away we went! And we went to these, like, these bars
downtown on Saint Laurent - they were very rough places.
He got into like four fights that night because - he was a rough guy, you know, and these kind of punk

Korean: 
펑키한 녀석들이 다가가고, 그에게 도전하고, 멍청한 짓거리를 했죠. 그리고 그는 의심이 많았죠.
만약 당신이 그의 주위에서 멍청한 짓을 얼마동안 이라도 했다면, 그는 바로 당신을 팼을겁니다. 그는 당신한텐
 이게 맞다고 생각하니까요.
그의 생각이 맞을수도 있습니다.
그리고 나는 그를 관찰할수 있었죠.
아무튼 이 일이 있은 후 한두주일 뒤, 그는 우리집 문 앞에서 문을 두드렸습니다.
문을 열자 그가 서있었습니다. 눈은 반쯤 감은채로, 흔들거리고 있었죠.
그리고 그때 그가 무슨 물건을 가져왔는지 기억은 나지 않습니다만, 그걸 팔려고 했죠.
그래서 나는 말했습니다.
“폴, 난 이걸 살 수 없어요, 사지 않을거에요. 나도 당신이 술을 끊으려고 하는걸 알고 있어요.
제가 이 돈을 준다면, 당신은 또 술을 마실테고, 이건 당신에게 도움이 되지 않아요.”
그리고 나는 그가 이렇게 새벽 2시에 우리집을 찾아오는건 당신도 좋아하는 내 아내를 불안하게 만든다고, 
이렇게 하면 안된다고 말했습니다.

English: 
guys would come up to him, and sort of challenge him, and act stupidly around him, and he was very skeptical and if you were
acting stupidly around him for any length of time, he'd just hit you because he felt that that's what you deserved and perhaps
he was right, you know, so, so, I had
First-Hand opportunity to observe him
So, anyways, he - sure enough - about a week or two after we had this conversation
he showed up at the door "knock knock knock." You know, open the door, and he's standing there
you know, with his eyes kind of half closed, and he was swaying,
and he had - I don't remember what the appliance was this time, but he wanted to sell it to me and
I said
"I'm not... Paul, I can't buy this
I'm not going to buy this. Because, I know you're trying to quit drinking and
if I give you this money, then you're going to go and drink it up and
it's not going to be good for you," and
What else did I tell him? I think I told him as well that
This whole thing of him coming to my house at like 2:00 in the morning

Korean: 
나는 내가 하는 말을 똑똑히 인지하고 있었습니다.
그가 나를 보고있었기 때문이죠.
거친 남자가 “한마디라도 나를 무시하는 발언을 한다면 그것에 대한 혹독한 대가를 치루게 해주겠다.”는 
눈빛으로 보고있었죠.
그래서 나는 적절한 단어를 고르고 있었습니다.
늪을 건널때 땅속에 있는 돌을 찾아 밟는 느낌으로요.
나는 내가 할 말을 정말정말 신중하게 했습니다.
그는 15초정도 나를 바라보았습니다.
새벽 3시에 그 15초는 정말 긴 시간이었어요.
그는 그렇게 돌아갔고 다시는 물건을 팔러 오지 않았습니다. 그리고 우리는 계속 잘 지냈고요.
이건 미지의 땅에서 이룬 진실과 성공에 관한 좋은 예시 입니다.

English: 
Was scaring my wife, who he liked, and that it had to stop. And believe me man, I was thinking about what I was saying
Because he was watching me
Like a rough guy watches you, and a rough guy watches you like this. He thinks, "if you say one thing that
indicates
contempt.
You're going to bloody well pay for it." and so I was finding my words, like, you know,
I was crossing a swamp and trying to look for the - for the rocks underneath the surface and
I said what I had to say very, very carefully. And he looked at me for about 15 seconds and
That's a long time to be looked at, at 3:00 in the morning. *laughter*
ha, and he left and
He never came back to sell me anything again, and we got along fine.
But that's a good illustration of this
issue with regards to
truth and success in the strange land. Because I was in the strange land when I was talking to my

English: 
neighbor - my landlord - and, and I managed to say what was true carefully enough
so, despite the fact that he was a very violent person and
that he was a very intoxicated person and that he had every reason to be suspicious of me
And we couldn't communicate very well, and I didn't do what he wanted. That
he took it and
he left, and there was no problem and life went on just fine after that. And
so,
we don't want to underestimate the utility of
establishing this bounded relationship with the ideal and
attempting to live
with some nobility in truth while aiming at the highest ideal. There's nothing about that, that's anything but
strengthening and positive and
It's exactly what you need to set against the catastrophe and uncertainty of life.

Korean: 
나는 미지의 땅에서 내 이웃-내 집주인과 이야기를 했고 진실을 최대한 신중하게 말하려고 했습니다.
그래서 그가 정말 매우 폭력적인 사람이었고 술에 쩔어있는 사람이며 나를 충분히 의심할수 있었으며
우리는 심지어 소통도 잘 되지 않았고 나는 그가 원하는대로 하지도 않았지만
그는 받아들였고, 돌아갔죠. 그후로 이런 문제는 더이상 없었고 모든것이 좋았습니다.
우리가 이상과 선을 긋는 것은 실용적입니다.
그리고 삶에서 고결함을 유지하고 최고의 이상을 바라보죠.
이게 전부입니다.
이게 당신을 강해지게 만들고 긍정적이게 만들며, 우리가 삶의 고난과 불확실성에 맞설수 있게 합니다.
