"어떤 일이 가능한가?" — 이 물음 자체가 어떤 가능성보다 앞서 존재한다.1
The answer arrives, when it arrives, in a form the question did not anticipate. This is the etiquette of possibility.1
1 Korean proverb: 묻는 사람이 답을 안다 — "the one who asks already knows."
씨앗은 작다. 작기 때문에 가능하다. 작지 않은 것은 이미 일어난 일이다.2
A tree is a seed reading itself slowly out loud, with the wind for an audience.2
2 See also: Whole Earth Catalog, 1968: "stay hungry, stay foolish."
지금 가능한 일은 한 가지뿐이다 — 다음 한 걸음을 내딛는 것.3
Tomorrow is unfinished, and that is its great kindness — it has not, yet, been disappointed by anyone.3
3 Marginalia, anonymous: "내일은 약속이 아니라 가능성이다."
— READING ROOM · CHAPTER FOUR —
"Possibility is the most generous of the cardinal virtues. Hope expects; faith requires; charity gives. But possibility merely permits — it leaves the door open and asks nothing of you in return. This is why we keep returning to the word, in two languages, on a small site about nothing in particular: because the door, when it is open, is its own argument."
"무엇을 가능하게 만드시겠습니까?"
"What will you make possible?"