Opening the first page of Helene Hanff's epistolary novel "84 Charing Cross Street", what caught my eye was: "If you happen to pass by No. 84 Charing Cross Street, please give me a kiss, I owe her a lot. ........"
On October 5, 1949, a poor female writer living alone in New York sent a brief business letter to an antique bookstore in London, asking for some cheap old books she wanted to read. In fashionable New York, people don't want to read those books, and it just so happens that the clerks of this antique bookstore founded in 1920 earnestly send out books. Coming and going, correspondence, looking for books, sending books, gifts, one side is sending gifts generously, the other side is looking for books and sending books earnestly, the accounts and exchange rates are refreshing and refreshing, gradually, in the casual writing of letters , and gradually establish mutual acquaintance between people who are separated by oceans.
The solitary female writer treats the family members of the bookstore employees as her own, and the photos of the family members sent in the letter are posted on the wall. In particular, the reading preference shared with bookstore Frank is that they become confidants. After 20 years, the fate that never met in 1969 became the fate that could never be together. When the woman who lived alone finally set foot on the streets of London and found Charing Cross, the bookstore was dilapidated and out of date, and he was long gone. She shed silent tears on the dusty oak floor.
There are many kinds of emotions in the world. There is a kind of fate in the world, which is the love in the spiritual world. This kind of fate spans time and space and is engraved in the soul. This kind of fate, although nostalgia, is a kind of spiritual communication. When the right person appears at a certain end, although they have never met, they are full of nostalgia. Perhaps, this is also another way of showing love.
The fact is that although this kind of spiritual communication is present in the world, few people have this need. I have seen people around me who are dedicated to the world's emotions, and they will never understand the fate of this spiritual world. People in the world live in different realms. If you happen to live in this spiritual realm of loving books, you will definitely be moved by this true story; This relationship is rarely owned by the secular world.
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