最近读书进入了一种凝滞的状态,发现曾认定的一些东西有些坍塌的状态,有些混沌。价值观念的混乱或许是一种新的自我认知的重塑,或许是一种心智的成长,但这种滋味有些难受。感觉读书到一定阶段略有些悲观,倒不是焦虑而是vanitas vanitatum,人类的各种艺术文化总让自己有一种虚无缥缈归于零的想法。希望只是目前的一种状态。
The Kite Runner实话讲不难看,但最后几章的确败笔,合上书只觉得花在这本书上的时间很不值得。不大能忍受一些作品带有很强烈的某种色彩。如同米兰昆德拉批判《1984》,以一种狭隘的形式将某种现实无可挽回收紧在politics范围内,而且将所有的目光都局限于这个范围的否定面,也是一种流毒。将所有岁月静好也要强行蒙上一种色彩,本身就是对生活的否定,是将过去的时光否定的一干二净。这也是我个人不大喜欢看《美丽新世界》《楚门的世界》一样的感觉,包括纽伯瑞童书中的The Giver,在这个前进的时代大肆宣扬感觉只是一种民cui的鼓吹。多少也是近期新闻狂轰乱炸的负面感受。只是觉得当下一个人与世间可以紧密相连,也可以断得一干二净。反而是最细小而触动的小事让周遭真实和留恋。
抽空听乃夫老师讲《小妇人》开讲,也完全可以自己看,真得是太懒了,想让脑子歇一歇。开课又提到了transcendentalism(先验主义),提到了爱默生的self-reliance,很喜欢这样的开篇。会自己去琢磨如何将人生过得不那么后悔。
今天已经开始忙碌,专心于自己最想做的事情。所以阅读可能会滞后,也不花太多的力气去做精读稿了。但放弃英文阅读还挺难,养成一个习惯有时候也是很可怕的事。虽然觉得不应该总是读一些little reading,应该多读一些经典,目前精力不大允许,连着读完《美国语文》《知更鸟》《风筝》,也是头昏脑涨,加之语言还是从兴趣入手,作为能力的保留就时不时看些通俗的故事吧。也没什么矛盾和纠结。自己看开了就好。
因为决定不再买书,这本书用的打印+电子书,(数了数,家里没看的英文书还有20多本,买书做什么!)第一章依旧需要一个过渡,开篇的As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: “Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator. Look at it, rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.”“What’s that?” I asked.
“Water,” the Dutchman said. “Well, and time.”—PETER VAN HOUTEN, An Imperial Affliction说实话不太懂。
但书名由来"Men at some time are masters of their fates:The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings."(这里的stars就是指命运)还挺有诗意。
书目前刚读完第一章,挺可爱好读的一本书,生词很少,只是需要一些故事背景了解。后面或许会有琼瑶类的剧情,不妨碍开篇的好感。不过发现国外的小说虎头蛇尾很常见,开篇惊艳总让人担心后续会不会崩。
文中的serenity prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. 抛去religion来讲是挺安静的文,来自Reinhold Niebuhr的serenity prayer。
另一处目光停留的地方来自于小姑娘的一种想法,“There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anytthing. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle (亚里士多德)or Cleopatra(埃及艳后), let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this”—I gestured encompassingly—“will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion (被遗忘)worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. ..."
这或许是作者借小姑娘的口吻阐述自己以及一些重病人的想法。
杂七杂八说太多,第一章就这样。如果后文太狗血,豹豹不会去过多记录。
天气热啦,是一个健身的好时光!
两天后,继续这本书,发现最近拖延症好厉害。最近装了开言听一听免费的课和fm,算是调剂。不能开会员,开会员对自己来说就意味着不会再高频率去使用,不知道是不是属于书非借不能读也。也和时间紧有关系。
今天立夏,除了柳絮飞扬就是季节性皮肤过敏,可是依然喜欢夏天,喜欢瓜果丰盛,阳光炎热出汗的感觉,还喜欢冰棍和西瓜。
第二章已经结束了,没什么特别难的地方,
one day I was shooting free throws—just standing at the foul line at the North Central gym shooting from a rack of balls. All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing.
男主人公Gus在截肢前练习投篮时的感受,普通人不大能体会到病人的感受,但一些人生的灾难的确会改变人的一些想法。
My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell people about it. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book. And then there are books like An Imperial Affliction, which you can’t tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal.
这一段太有同感,有些书是可以分享的,恨不得别人体会你的情绪。但有些书是刻印在自我内心,属于自己的一部分,拿出来分享是一种放在最深处的曝光和背叛。
或许每个个体的内在都是一种独立状态,被分享交流的的永远是一杯咖啡上漂浮的层面,不要渴求被理解。有点写作中冰山理论的意味。
今天会进行完第三章,把纳尼亚过一章,对于强迫症要么解决完所有的零碎,要么破而后立,后者暂且做不到,就努力消耗内耗。
今天天很美好,心情很好。
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