A.J.提议过邀请利昂·弗里德曼来参加婚礼,阿米莉娅拒绝了。
但他们的确商量好让阿米莉娅大学时的一位朋友在婚礼上读《迟暮花开》中的一段。
“因为从心底害怕自己不值得被爱,我们独来独往,”那段是这样的,“然而就是因为独来独往,才让我们以为自己不值得被爱。有一天,你不知道是什么时候,你会驱车上路。有天,你不知道是什么时候,你会遇到他(她)。你会被爱,因为你今生第一次真正不再孤单。你会选择不再孤单下去。”
———《岛上书店》
What is the most horrific picture you have ever seen?
The kiss of Judas.
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No gore, torn limbs or splattered brains and yet this picture is horrifying, at least to me, but why? You might want to ask.
The picture was first printed in a Spanish newspaper captioned The kiss of Judas. It shows a bull, sent out in a ring to endure torture and eventually death, running up to his breeder, the only face which he recognises in this crowd maddened by the frenzied euphoria of this barbaric sport. The bull, perhaps in pain, feels that his owner, the man who reared him since he barely learnt to walk, would save him and so he reaches forward only to be kissed back by the man and sent back to his death.
The picture depicts our hypocrisy as a species; we take pride in calling ourselves civilized beings and yet we kill beings lesser to us for sport and entertainment. In earlier times similar rings were occupied by wild animals, the gladiators, the slaves and the savages and now they are occupied solely by animals. Some darn progress humanity has made!
跑步教会我的是自律，是克制，是不放弃，是死磕到底。
——路明 意林
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