幸福在中文中和英文不盡相同。你們所指的幸福與開心緊相關聯;對於我們,幸福不那麼感官,而是內向的。幸福是種信仰。
我們都活得下去因為我們不計較別人撒謊。在別人對我撒謊時,我已明白他實質在說什麼,我想明白實質而不想明白言詞。實質是,他(她)在我對他(她)可知可控範圍內造成一個失控和未知,造成一個人與人關係的喘息,休止。
但我不相信他會和我如此之巧地分承了同一記憶各自的那一半。我不敢說自己的這一半有多可靠。而多少美好的事依賴於我們記憶的不可靠性而存在。
我們恐懼著我們所嚮往的。我們不是怕刀,是怕我們心底下以刀去傷人或自傷的秘密嚮往。恐高症不是恐高,是恐懼我們天生具有而從不被認識的墮落欲望。或讓別人去墮落的欲望。取而代之的往往是你朝山澗裡投一塊石頭,聽著那墜落的經過,最終聽見一個象徵的你,或者一部分的你墜進湍急的澗溪。
和一個老年男性,你不會失望,因為你是以失望開始接近他的。
2014年12月9日 星期二
《人寰》嚴歌苓
2014年12月1日 星期一
《鱷魚街》Bruno Schulz
阿姨不停的抱怨,這是她談話的基本調性。她的聲音從一團多產的白色肉塊中傳出來 - 那肉塊肆瘧的生長已經超過了她的極限,它們只是鬆垮、隨便地被聚集在一塊兒,勉強構成了一個人的形狀。然而,這團肉塊也已經長到多得不能再多,它隨時都會分崩離析、擴散、灑落到全家人身上。那幾乎是可以自行聖旨得反制裡,是不懂得什麼叫矜持的女性氣質,以一種近乎病態的方式增生。
《I Remember Nothing》Nora Ephron
A couple years ago, the actor Ryan O'Neal confessed that he'd recently failed to recognize his own daughter, Tatum, at a funeral and had accidentally made a pass at her. Everyone was judgmental about this, but not me.
I went to many legendary rock concerts and spent them wondering when they would end an where we would eat afterward and whether the restaurant would still be open and what I would order.
On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can?
You always think that a bolt of lightning is going to strike and your parents will magically change into the people you wish they were, or back into the people they used to be. But they're never going to. And even though you know they're never going to, you still hope they will.
《I Feel Bad About My Neck》Nora Ephron
My therapist used to say, "Love is homesickness." What she meant was that you tend to fall in love with someone who reminds you of one of your parents. This, of course, is one of those things that analysts always say even though it really isn't true. Just about anyone on the planet is capable of reminding you of something about one of your parents, even if it's only a dimple... The point I want to make is that love may or may not be home sickness, but homesickness is most definitely love.
It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate?
Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.
Whenever someone says the words "Our friendship is more important than this," watch out, because it almost never is.