This division is really interesting. I seem to see this blind old man, raising a paper knife to stab the paper, cutting life into four teeth. What is the difference between life and story? The time that goes by every minute and every second flows to an unknown plot. As far as the unknown is concerned, I think that one-person travel should be the first recommendation. Love, fighting, whether two people, three people, or a group of people, not to mention watching couples quarreling on the street, rape and murder in the newspaper, love and murder, the deputy section chief in life framed the section chief, you are tired of watching TV series , The ancients and today's people are all the same, very clichéd. It’s easy to get on the road alone, with packages and tickets, where you want to go, how great. Eyes are full of strange scenery and strangers. You don't need to pay attention to who you are, who you are with, or what you want to do. A person can only become himself when he is on the road.
However, the truth of the matter may be quite the opposite. Almost every single traveler longs for something to happen during the journey. Nothing, how can there be a story? Things are adventures, and the adventures in the adventures are probably Aventures. To live elsewhere, to go elsewhere, is to go to an unknown new life. Once I went to a meeting in another place, and I saw an old man walking north and south. On the dinner table, he was full of adventures and amorous encounters during his journey. The people on the table were all dumbfounded and filled with words. Two words are jealous. This old man has a dark complexion, a hoarse voice, and a faint tiredness. It is said that he belongs to the kind of "killer" guy. His story is spread in every station, terminal, and airport. Seeing an Yi Ren who tempted him, or the back of Yi Ren, answered in a few words, it caused a dramatic encounter, just like the rain in the night, the melons are ripe. Afterwards, they went their separate ways, and the encounters became the memories of the collection. A man at the same dinner table asked him, are you afraid of leaving any trouble? He smiled coolly and said, there are no traces of wings in the sky, and I have already flown. Another woman listened and sighed and said, oh, I'm going to faint.
One of his most unforgettable events happened in front of Gulao Cave in Emei Mountain. It was spring, and it was evening. The sky was suddenly dark and light rain started. He shivered with the cold and ran into the cave to escape. However, there was already another person there. Of course, that is a woman, otherwise, how is Aventure an Aventure? But otherwise, this time it is not an Aventure. The woman was catching a cold and fever, and her body was hot, but she was so cold that she was fighting with her teeth. She said that she had lost her comrades, the mountain was high and the road was deep and deep, she shouted that she was not working every day, and she yelled not. She felt that she had to wait to die. With the composure of a traveler, he comforted her and embraced her. She needs too much comfort and too much warmth. He hugged her and told her a lot of stories about turning danger to a breeze. Of course, they were all his stories. He carried his beloved Proust's "Reminiscence of the Passing Years" with him, of course, it may be just one of this long novel. He tore off the pages of the book and burned them one by one. The flames jumped, like sensitive and hot fingers, bringing them warmth and awakening his desire. However, he did nothing. When the book burned out, the rescue team followed the fire. That's it, he drank the last glass of wine at the dinner table, he said, I was moved to cry.
Everyone was silent. Afterwards everyone was saying, "Everything made you meet, why didn't we have a scene?" He smiled wearily and said nothing. He gave me a floppy disk and said that all the memories were hidden in it.
Later, when I opened the floppy disk at home, there was only one sentence on it: "Everything is a dream, because the journey is always lonely."
After laughing dumbfounded, we can easily throw the floppy disk aside. However, what can not be dropped is still a dream. The dream has an unforgettable encounter on our unknown journey. Because we have to experience an encounter before we know what a real surprise is and what a real sadness is. Just like a tree, it must cut the mark of an axe before it becomes strong and tall, and it can emit the internal smell, that kind of sad fragrance. In dreams, each of us is a potential novelist; and true novelists use our dreams as potential materials to fabricate romantic and embarrassing encounters.
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The love story of encounter, the best-selling in the past two decades, is Robert Waller's "Covered Bridge Last Dream". On the morning of October 8, 2003, in the autumn light, a wooden house on a farm in Iowa caught fire, causing media all over the world to report in a hurry, which made thousands of fans of The Bridge. I tightened my heart, because the movie of the same name was shot in this house. After the movie was released, this house was called "Fransica Log House", and along with many covered bridges in Izhou, it became a must for tourists. From this we can see how big the influence of this novel is.
I only bought "Covered Bridge Last Dream" at a stall at the end of last year, and it has been ten years since the first wave of "Covered Bridge Craze". The reason why I didn't read it at the beginning is now forgotten. It's probably a bit inexplicable jealousy and rejection. Holding the book in my hand that day, it felt like an extremely thin booklet, with a preface of only 80,000 words, and I couldn't believe it had caused such a big wave in the readers' minds. Perhaps in this era of lack of romance, romance is the passport to its popularity. Romantic love always means journey and encounter, and "The Bridge of Last Dream" is the story of a man who travels the world and a housewife, which contains all the important elements needed for romance. Before reading a novel, I had watched a movie. I didn’t like Eastwood’s role of Kincaid, the exaggerated vicissitudes and deepness. Some did some shows, but I liked his small truck. The car is cooler than people, a bit dull and dilapidated. But it has its own style of climbing over the mountains. For a while, I especially wanted to get such a car and walk around. Francesca is played by Meryl Streep. I like all her roles. This film is of course no exception. There is the simplicity, haggard and beauty of women in the interior of North America, but there is an Italian girl who is unwilling to be lonely in Latin. Heart. When she rejoiced in her encounter with Kincaid, I was also laughing; when she was crying for a short gathering, I was also uncomfortable. This is actually a pretty cliché story, and I am not a very heart-spirited person, but I am still moved by it. The reason why a way of telling a story is clichéd and can continue to be told is that clichés are actually very powerful: because we are all people in the dunya.
Of course, because it is a cliché story, when Kincaid drove to Francesca's wooden house, we already knew the result, that is, there would be no good results. The stories of encounters all start with meeting each other and end with each other. The most touching thing is the subtle details, a glance, a smile, and a small gesture that make Francesca's heart and body re-sensitized, vigorous, passionate, and capable. On the way to lead Jinkai to the covered bridge, she said "turn right", which gave her a chance to take a look at his side. The moment he lit her cigarette, her hand touched his, and she felt the warmth of his hand and the fine hairs on the back of his hand. She also observed that he was wearing a complicated-looking watch on his left wrist and a finely patterned silver bracelet on his right wrist, and she was thinking that this silver bracelet should be polished with silver powder. But she immediately blamed herself. This trivial small-town habit was exactly what she had resisted for many years. She didn't know that she was being awakened little by little from the farmer's wife and returned to the college student who had studied comparative literature. Smoking a cigarette, she admitted to the strange man, "This is not the place I dreamed of when I was a girl." Where was the place I dreamed of when I was a girl? Only when a girl becomes a woman with a weathered face can she figure out that the place is not actually a place, but a person, like the wandering photographer, Robert Kincaid, sitting opposite Francesca Johnson. It's so pitiful, she finally saw this man before she died. They only spent a few days together. Except for acquaintance, temptation, and proximity, the time for the two to be happy is actually even shorter. However, this has been enough for a lifetime, Francesca did not expect her withered body to be so emotional and store passion. He wants to take her away to the ends of the world; this is what she yearns for, and she is willing to go anywhere with him. However, she cannot go because she still has a family: a husband and children. Her husband is a good man, simple, honest, practical, not fantasizing, and incomprehensible, just like Pan Jinlian's husband Wu Dalang in "Water Margin", Deng Yaogu's husband Cai Fool, "Bofali" in "Still Waters" Emma's husband Charlie in "Lady", however, she is not one of them. She has a sense of responsibility and is a member of the simple and tough grassroots class. She can't go with him, and she will ruin her husband if she leaves. Jin Kai is also a good man. He will not intimidate her, but will only respect her. As she said, "If you pick me up and put me in your truck and force me to follow you, I will not complain. But I don’t think you would do this. Because you are too sensitive and know my feelings too well.” Only in this way, this encounter is more than just a rain and cloud, crazy, sloppy, greasy of sweat. , I feel nauseous in retrospect. At the end of the breakup scene, the movie is more exciting than the novel. The novel writes all of Francesca's sorrow, and Meryl Streep uses her eyes and hands to express a thousand words of repression. The fog was heavy and the rain was pattering. Kincaid’s pickup truck stood in front of the Francesca couple's car on the cross street, and he silently begged her at the end. She put her hand on the handle of the car door, unscrewed it, and drew it again... The husband kept beating the horn, urging. The horn is sharp and piercing, cutting pain like a knife. As long as she stepped out, a few steps away, it was the life she had dreamed of since a girl... But she still kept herself. When the pickup truck finally went away in the mud, tears rolled down her, and her husband, who was destined to be with her for life, was naive and unaware. She was sixty-seven years old when she died, and after him, she had never had any affair. It was the same with him. He missed her summer-like breath for the rest of his life, and there was no other woman.
The clichéd love stories have perfect endings. The two eloped and lived a fairy-tale life, love to death, which is a kind of cliché, but it is too vulgar. The perfection of "Covered Bridge Last Dream" is that it cannot be realized; what is realized is endless nostalgia. Nostalgia has become a perfect wish to be clean and dust-free. Most people who are moved by this book will not believe that there are such men and women in the world, but they will all believe that this wish is indeed true and not deceived.
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bridge seems to be the best place to encounter occurred. In addition to the covered bridge in Madison County, the Broken Bridge in West Lake, China, and the Waterloo Bridge in London, England... all have unforgettable stories. The bridge compresses the communication between the two other worlds into a narrow passage, and the road on the bridge becomes a narrower door. There are often busy traffic and pedestrians walking in hurriedly. When heads meet, when face to face, they are numb and dazed. Their eyes slid over the other's shoulders and into the depths of the vacancy. Even if there were so many encounters, there were no It slipped away at the beginning. The real encounter happened in the evening, or on a rainy day, the two worlds were calm, but the two people's moods were unreasonably restless. Generally speaking, there is wind on the bridge, maybe there is still a bit of fog, they are walking on the bridge, maybe one is rushing home, one is strolling lazily, one hits the other and wants to Usually, if you hit, you will hit each other, but now they are looking at each other; they may have passed by, but unexpectedly turned back to each other... This is the beginning of an encounter. There are some patterns, but they are exactly the same. It's our expectation for the encounter.
However, just looking back is not enough. Perhaps the most classic encounter on the bridge is the movie "Broken Blue Bridge". Behind the encounter, there is an invisible hand. This is war. War is the glue of encounters, which binds the fate of two strange men and women unexpectedly. War is horrible, but war movies always create rosy dreams, although the ending is broken without exception. A more interesting phenomenon is that war films in the peaceful era are more popular than in the war era: mankind cannot do without watching the war, just like the carnival of World Cup football, and the anxious expectation of encounters. In a war movie, the mediocre life is suddenly thrown to the top; the mediocre life suddenly has fierce confrontation; time is broken, habits are broken, and people facing each other every day Farewell to life and death. Encounters set against the background of war are not unbelievable. In the air-raid shelter, Captain Roy said a classic sentence to Miss Mara who met for the first time, "War lets us face the unknown." Mara replied with the same classic sentence, "Doesn't peace allow us to face the unknown?" This is the first classic dialogue in "Broken Blue Bridge", but unfortunately many people have forgotten it. Many people remember that Roy came to see Mara in the rain, because he suddenly forgot what she looked like; he still proposed to her in the rain, and she said, "You are crazy..." How many men are doing this I am intoxicated by words, as if Mara said it to herself; how many women are crying, thinking that she also has a good man, let herself tell him that he is crazy. But all these beautiful, romantic, and sentimental stories are over, no one thought that everything would be like this. Even Roy, who knows the "unknown" in theory, has not been able to become a "prophet." Mara lost Roy, and then Roy came back again. For him, it was just a miracle that lived and died. He could have lost nothing; for Mara, losing Roy buried everything, chastity and dignity, hope and future. Then it was destruction, destruction of love, and then destruction of life. She didn't blame anyone, she didn't know who to blame, she could only blame fate, the accidental misreporting news, and her unsuspecting fainting. She didn't blame the war, because the film didn't even show a picture of war, only the sound of enemy planes roaring past, casting a shadow of war on romance. But this shadow actually became the protagonist of this film because it manipulated the life of the hero and heroine. They turned out to be mediocre characters. Even though Roy is a child of nobles, there are so many British nobles; even if Mara is a ballerina, she is too poor to flirt with men. The war is coming, but the enemy plane is coming The alarm put the two people together in the air-raid shelter. Because of the war rushing, they could fall in love with lightning, get engaged, and missed marriage. The war generously gave you what you couldn't get, what you didn't deserve, and then took it back together with your life. War does not allow mankind to play cards according to common sense and not according to rational thinking, because everything is abnormal. We often hear one of the best explanations for anomalies or accidents, "Oh, my dear, this is a time of war..." This sentence is gentle but arrogant, so it says everything, and it is beyond doubt.
"War" is another key word about encounters after "responsibility". Responsibility is self-sacrifice. It is to give up love or dreams within reach, to leave oneself in loneliness, loneliness, and longing. Let the rest grow full of weeds and wildflowers, and the unspeakable misery can be swallowed with tears. The war is accompanied by the pain of the family and the country, the straightforward hatred of life and death, the splendid and prosperous life suddenly blooms like cherry blossoms, and then a gust of wind passes, and the dust disappears in a flash, there is no time to miss, and there is no time to be lonely, because even the flesh is destroyed. Clean and clean: When Mara committed suicide in a car crash on the Waterloo Bridge, the time between her and Roy was only a few days, just like Francesca and Kincaid. The war in a novel or movie makes the encounter highly beautiful and cruel, the joy and pain are infinitely magnified, and the encounter with a glimpse of shock brings to each of us, each of us seems to think that we can be the protagonist of the story, from The unfulfilled passion makes us feel moved by the joys and sorrows of others.
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encounters seem to be related to the bridge, and the ship is a wandering bridge, so many encounters also occur on the ship. Ships carry many irrelevant people in a small and mobile space, from one dock to another farther dock. The sailing of the ship is slow, which determines that the encounters on the ship are watery, mysterious, and even incredible. In García Márquez’s "Love in the Time of Cholera", the young telegrapher Florentino Arisa, who is broken in love, takes a boat to work in a remote town. During the long and hot voyage, he misses his lover. Vowed to keep her virginity for her. However, one night when he was going to the toilet, he was pulled into a cabin by a woman's claw-like hands, and fell face-up on the bed, then was snatched away from his proud virgin body. He didn't see her looks clearly, and didn't know her age. He only remembered her breath and a stern sentence: "Now, you go! Forget it! Nothing happened."
This encounter was a one-off attack, and its success came from a plan that was thoughtful to the details. The mystery of it is that nothing happened when she asked him to do anything. The actual situation is that during the orgasm, he made an unbelievable discovery. This discovery even he wanted to refuse to accept, that is Fantasy love for a lover can be replaced by realistic lust. Since then, Arisa has been hunting all kinds of women as a substitute for lovers, but he has remained free throughout his life, not getting married, in order to marry his dreams in the last days. In the bride. This clue constitutes the main plot of the whole novel, and the turning point is only a sudden and fleeting encounter, as if it were hijacking or rape. García Márquez may be trying to tell us: this is how the destiny of man has been accidentally changed. The encounter was accidental; Arisa's attack carried a vicious pleasure, because it hit his secret wish: the gate opened and he became an indulgent prodigal.
Pu Ning also wrote an encounter novel about ships. I thought it was his most restrained love story, called "A Dizzy Sunshine." To be precise, the encounter took place on a ship, but it was realized in an old-fashioned nameless hotel. Hotel, for travelers, is just another kind of moored ship. The ship was sailing on the Volga River and approached a small town that was strange to both of them at dusk. He is a young, healthy, and tall lieutenant; and she has a husband and son, and now she is alone, returning from a vacation in the south, her dark skin and her body under the thin burlap dress exudes the smell of sunlight. In this amorous season and hour, they think about each other. Driven by a wave of repressed passion, they got off the boat, rode in a carriage, silently rolled over the soft, thick dust, galloped to the hotel and entered the room. This night was in ecstasy, "After many years, they still can't forget this moment, whether it's him or her, in their lives, they will never feel this way again." . She left first and asked him to take the next boat. She did not leave her name, postal address, or any chance of reunion. Her explanation of this encounter was, "This is my momentary mistake... Or, to be precise, it seems that there is a strong sun that makes us both dizzy and intoxicated." It was very poetic, but also It's easy and free and easy.
Sure enough, the lieutenant sent her to the dock and aboard the ship with a free and easy mood. When he returned to the hotel, he seemed unconcerned, relaxed and happy. However, everything has been irrevocably changed. This room was once full of her manners and voice, and now the quilt is still messy, but she will never appear again. Thinking of this, his heart was ashamed. He scolded himself, it was nothing more than a ray of sunlight that dazzled people. It was nothing. In order to pass the time, he went around the city. The carts with cucumbers in the market, the brand-new pots and bowls, the new manure from the livestock, and the string of shouts made him feel stupid and irritable. Later, he returned to the hotel, drank vodka and ate a lightly pickled fennel cucumber, telling himself that boundless happiness and great joy were everywhere. But at the same time, he was burned all over, thinking that if he could spend another day with her, it would be worthwhile to die tomorrow. He quickly ran to the post office to send her a report, but he found pitifully that he didn't even know where or who he sent it to. He staggered on the deserted street, and everything he saw, big and small, reminded him of the woman he had lost forever. Lying back to the hotel bed again, tears kept rolling down. Later, he fell asleep, and the sunset was golden when he woke up, and the joys and sorrows of last night and this morning are just like the joys and sorrows of ten years ago. He finally got on the boat in the dark, sitting under the pergola on the deck, feeling that he was ten years old suddenly. The story ends here.
Why is he ten years old? Pu Ning did not say. Probably the young lieutenant had been overdrawn for ten years. Or if a day is longer than ten years, he used that day to see through the truth that it takes ten years of cultivation to understand. What is the reason? Pu Ning still did not say. I guess that the truth is the love of encounters, and there is no reason at all: whether it is Francesca and Kincaid’s whole body and mind, or Arisa’s complete mindlessness to the attacker and the lieutenant to the unknown woman, it is a fatal blow. , So that you will become another person with a wound that cannot be healed.
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Storytellers, novelists, or film directors are using thousands of ways to tell tourists from all over the world a common conclusion. In a classic encounter, it includes gathering and dispersal at the same time. The ancients said that there is a time for gathering and dispersing. But there are times, so what else do you say about encounters? Encounters include gathering and dispersal, but they are timeless, without cause, and without destiny. Jia Baoyu is happy to gather or not to disperse, and always find ways to get together. But Lin Daiyu is happy to go away and not to get together, because after getting together, she still wants to go away. The ancients also said that there is no permanent banquet in the world. Jia Baoyu is a prosperous feast advocating, but Lin Daiyu saw the coldness behind the prosperous at a glance. In other words, no matter how you tell the story of the encounter, it is destined to go from being overwhelmed to being overwhelmed, to being euphemistic. The happiness of encountering is unexpected, because it is fast, so it is quickly lost; and the melancholy of encounters is endless, because it is unexpected, so it is stranded. But despite this, who would refuse to meet? Just like we can't refuse the unexpected opening of an epiphany.
Text / where large grass
published in the "South" in 2005 five
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