"First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus "
"The whisky they drank that evening (two big bottles of it) is important. Otherwise, it would be hard to account for what followed. Perhaps without it there would never have been a café. For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down"
"For the liquor of Miss Amelia has a special quality of its own. It is clean and sharp on the tongue, but once down a man it glows inside him for a long time afterward. And that is not all. It is known that if a message is written with lemon juice on a clean sheet of paper there will be no sign of it"
"First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus "
"Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. The silence of a firelit room when suddenly the clock stops ticking, the nervous shadows in an empty house-- it is better to take in your mortal enemy than face the terror of living alone."
读完同名短篇我的心都碎了,一个全然面对孤独的人才能在书中构筑孤独,解读孤独。在这衰颓疲倦却永不停转的世界里,疏离和渴望成为永恒的命题。我终于承认每个人内心深处都渴望爱与被爱,可是生命中有多少可遇不可求的事呢?麦卡勒斯的答案是,接受它,live with it,孤独就像慢性病一样永不消停。每个人何尝不是用片刻的温暖缓解漫长生命中的痛呢,众生平等。《树·石·云》与我心中隐约存在的想法不谋而合:爱不了任何人便去爱世间万物吧(当然我做不到)。偏爱《家庭困境》中妻子熟睡脆弱的面容以及丈夫忧愁又充满爱意的注视。