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年终总结,总说做了什么,特别是做了什么大事,而不太总结没做什么,多少能做的没做,该做的没做,有几回是做自己?
“归去来兮,田园将芜胡不归?既自以心为形役,奚惆怅而独悲?……”这可能是陶渊明的多年总结,写出了多少人的心声?
有人问乔伊斯,战争时期(第一次世界大战)在做什么,老乔回答,写《尤利西斯》(Ulysses)呀,你呢?
还有一个相似的故事。有人问Margart Mitchell近来做什么,她回答:全职做《飘》的作者呀!(it is a full-time job to be the author of Gone With the Wind)
大散文家EB White(1899-1985,他的书比他老人家出名,现在都能看到,我就不多说了)很欣赏(treasure)Mitchell小姐的态度,在A report in January(见他的随笔集Here is New York)里,他说他有天早晨想起这句话,便在脑子里整理一天的活儿,做什么呢?最后明白了,生活在新英格兰的冬天,也是一份儿“全职”,什么也不必做了——
I felt a kinship with Miss Mitchell and comforted myself with the pleasing thought that just to live in New England in winter is a full-time job; you don’t have to “do” anything. The idle pursuit of making-a-living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.
Immediacy这个词儿说生活,看起来很直接,想起来却不那么直接——有点儿像数学证明里常说的,it immediately follows that……只有当我们熟悉了它的全部,才能一下子发现它的意义。
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