登高以博见

10.5.09

  “天地有大美而不言”,庄子如是说。因此,我们若想看到无言的大美,便需要有广阔的视野。然而,立于平地,土丘之上的目光常被阻隔,孔子登东山而小鲁登泰山而小天下便已告诉我们,要有广阔的视野,必先有绝对的高度。
  金圣叹先生死前还不忘让儿子将“大有胡桃味”的花生加咸菜吃法传与世人,刑场上还能将砍头之痛与喝酒之快并成为“痛快”。有人说他太无厘头,殊不知正式他这站在生死之上的高度让他对生活充满热情的同时,丝毫不畏惧死亡。超脱生死的视野,可谓大矣。
  人们称林则徐为近代中国放眼看世界的第一人。有请以来的闭关锁国催生的是一批目光狭隘又自视甚高的迂腐文人,林则徐在却卓然超群与众不同。试问他为何会有如此开阔之眼界在当时便知要师夷长技?林公自拟对联一幅是最好的答案,“苟利国家生死以,岂因祸福避趋之”。国家、民族的利益的支撑,让林则徐登上当时思想之高峰,放眼世界飞速之巨变。
  北国的雪在鲁迅严重是死掉的雨,是雨的精魂。因为他站在民族精神之上,所以雨雪在他眼中是荷戟独行的战士。海燕在高尔基眼中是勇敢的精灵。因为他站在征服的勇气之上,所以,暴风雨般的困难在他眼中只会化成更强大的动力。
  能在雨中读出斗志在风暴中看出拼搏,是多么深邃而高远的视野。但谁又能说以教育为己任,泽被后世的李桂林陆建芬夫妇的事业不开阔呢?谁又能说千里奔波雪中送炭抗冰雪救震灾的十三位唐山农民兄弟视野不开阔呢?作为教师,李桂林夫妇站在师德之上看到中国发展要靠教育。作为普通农民,他们站在一方有难八方支援的口号之上看到了走出困境要靠大家齐心协力。
  今天的人们,九天揽月、无恙猎奇、追踪生命、敲击原子,我们看到了许许多多先人不曾看过的景象,我们的视野广阔五笔。科学技术便是我们的高地,望远镜显微镜更加深了我们的目力。
  荀子说:“吾尝跂而望矣,不如登高之博见也。”没错,站得高,看得远。

还勇气的本来面目

13.4.09

  堂吉诃德,一个瘦骨嶙峋的老头,骑着匹同样瘦弱不堪的老妈,一身可笑的盔甲,高举长枪,大概就是块废铁,悍然站在“风车巨人”面前叫嚣着,有人说,这是挑战强权的勇气,我却不敢苟同。勇气,哪里是这样的呢?
  易水送别时,高渐离击筑,荆轲和而歌,那慷慨激昂的曲调,让人浑身血液直往脑袋冲,瞠目不算,连头发也能上指冠。然而一场刺秦的闹剧演过之后,秦王没死,燕国反倒始速祸焉。世人多赞叹荆轲勇气可嘉,我却觉得这只是匹夫之勇,如炮仗炸响,声惊四座,之后也之余一缕青烟,几张残片。
  是时候了,还勇气的本来面目。莽撞行事不是勇气,一意孤行不是勇气。勇气应有智慧依伴。
  人说伴君如伴虎,有人仗义执言,气节令人钦佩,却死于虎口。而像邹忌、触龙这样的人,或对君王晓之以理,或对统治者动之以情,没有激烈的争辩,没有言辞的交锋,甚至不像在劝谏,只是四两拨千斤。这才是真正的勇气。其实,勇气本身就包含有智慧的一面,凡事非要刀光剑影你死我活,只能叫冲动。
  为什么孔子不与暴虎冯河之人共事,为什么孟子说有小勇与大勇之分,原因也在这里,无谋者只会意气用事,当勇气之桶缺少了智谋这一块木板,是装不了水的。
  然而,现在的人,锋芒毕露无惧无畏的同时,也在干着些傻事。几年前,北大山鹰社的登山队员,缺乏专业指导,竟在冬天想从北坡登珠峰,最终将年轻的生命奉与雪山,激情澎湃也被那寒冷与冰霜扑灭殆尽。我得承认几位大学生敢想敢做,但他们与勇气的距离,还有那么一小步。事前的专业训练、可行性论证和周密的计划,有了这些,又怎会有葬身雪岭的悲剧发生呢?
  凶猛如雄鹰,尚要在悬崖筑巢而不敢平地起居,危险如毒蛇,也要身披保护色外衣而不会明目张胆四处游走,不是他们没有勇气,面对猎物,雄鹰的利爪不会手软,遇到敌人,蛇的出击也快如闪电,但聪明的他们,更懂得勇气需要智慧为依托才不免陷于被动。
  还勇气的本来面目,冲动莽撞,这些本就与勇气没有交集,而多思善想则正是勇气的一部分。

《心灵捕手》部分台词

6.4.09

1.about the painting
  WILL: The sky's fallin' on your head. The waves are crashin' over your little boat.The oars are about to snap. You just piss in your pants. You're cryin' for the harbor. So maybe you do what you gotta do to get out. You know, maybe you became a psychologist.
  SEAN:Bingo. That's it. Let me do my job now. You start with me. Come on.
  
2.treatment
  SEAN : Stayed up half the night thinkin' about it. Something occurred to me. I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep, and I haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?
  SEAN : You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea of what you're talkin' about.
  SEAN: So, if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny of Every art book ever written. Michelangelo. You know a lot about him: life's work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But I bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at the beautiful ceiling, seen that.
  SEAN:If I ask you about women, you'll probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what if feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid.
  And I ask you about war, you'd probably, uh, throw Shakespeare at me, right?"once more unto the breach, dear friends..." But you've never bee near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, and watched him gasp his last breath, lookin' to your for help.
  I ask you about love, you'll probably quote me s sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable, known someone that could level you with her eyes, feelin' like God put and angel on earth just for you,who could rescue you from the depths of hell, and you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anyghin, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sittin' up in a hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself.
  I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you. I don't see an intelligent, confident man. I see a cocky, scared-shitless kid. But you're a genius, Will. No one denies that. No one could possible understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me, because you saw a painting of mine. You ripped my fuckin' life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been? How you feel? Who you are? Because I read Oliver TWist?Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a shit about all that. Because you know what? I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless, you wanna talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fasci ated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that, do you, sport? You're terrified of what you might say.
  
3.about Sean's wife
  SEAN : Oh, Christ. But, Will, she's been dead two years, and that's the shit I remember. It's wonderful stuff, you know? Little things like that. Ah, but, those are the things I miss the most. The little idiosyncracies that only I knew about. That's what made her my wife. Oh, and she had the goods on me too. She knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections. But they're not. Ah……that's the good stuff. And then we get to choose who we let our weird worlds. You're not perfect, sport. And let me save you the suspense. This girl you met, she isn't perfect either. But the question is whether or not you're perfect for each other. That's the whole deal. That's what intimacy is all about . Now, you can know everything in the world, sport, but the only way you're findin' out that one is by givin' it a shot. You certainly won't learn it from an old fucker like me. Even if I did know, I wouldn't tell a pissant like you.
  
  
4.National Security Agency
  WILL:Oh, com'on, I mean, that is what you do. You guys handle 80 percent of the intelligence workload. You're seven times the size of the CIA.
  NSA:We don't like to brag about that, Will. So, the way I see it, the question isn't Why SHOULD you work for the NSA? The question is: Why shouldn't you?
  WILL:Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cus' I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in...
  WILL:...North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding... Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send inthe marines to secure the area" cus' they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cus' they were off pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cus' he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cus' every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
  
5.soul mate
  SEAN: Do you have a soul mate?
  WILL : Do I ha…? Define that.
  SEAN : Somebody who challenges you.
  WILL : I have Chuckie
  SEAN : No, Chuckie's family. He'd lie down in fuckin' traffic for you. No, I'm talkin' about someone who opens up things for you, touches your soul.
  WILL : I got-I got…
  SEAN : Who?
  WILL : I got plenty.
  SEAN : Well, name them.
  WILL : Shakespeare, Nietzsche, Frost, O'Connor, Kant, Pope, Locke.
  SEAN : That's great. They're all dead.
  WILL : Not to me, they're not.
  SEAN : No, You don't have a lot of dialogue with them. You can't give back to them, Will.
  WILL : No, not without some serious smelling salts and a heater.
  SEAN : Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. You'll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you're always afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing ten miles down the road.
  
    
6.Chuckie
  CHUCKIE:It's a way outta here.
  WILL:What do I want a way outta here for? I want to live here the rest of my life. I want to be your next-door neighbor. I want to take out kids to little league together up Foley Field.
  CHUCKIE:Look, you're my best friend, so don't take this the wrong way, but in 20 years, if you're livin' next door to me, comin' over watchin' the Patriots’ games and still workin' construction, I'll kill you. And that's not a threat, that's a fact. I’ll kill you.
  WILL:Chuckie, what are you talkin'...
  CHUCKIE:Listen, you got somethin' that none of us have.
  WILL:Why is it always this? I owe it to myself? What if I don't want to?
  CHUCKIE:Fuck you. You owe it to me. Tomorrow I'm gonna wake up and I'll be fifty and I'll still be doin' this. And that's all right 'cause I'm gonna make a run at it. But you, you're sittin' on a winning lottery ticket and you're too much of a pussy to cash it in. And that's bullshit 'cause I'd do anything to have what you got! And so would any of these guys. It'd be a insult to us if you're still here in twenty years.
  WILL:You don't know that.
  CHUCKIE:Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up, and we go out drinkin' or whatever and we have a few laughs. But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on the door 'cause I let myself think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left.
  CHUCKIE (cont'd):Now, I don't know much. But I know that.


  还有一段,Sean对Will连续说了7遍It's not your fault.然后Will抱着Sean痛哭……

消极与积极

1.4.09

  上语文课时和同桌争论周梦蝶的例子用于论证“阳光”(梦想、积极)是否妥当,同桌之一说周的行为是消极避世。
  我突然冒出一句,得到奖金后把钱都烧了才叫消极,像周梦蝶那样全数捐出,是最积极的表现了。
  同桌一愣,随即开玩笑地找纸和笔要记录我的“名言”。

骄傲的90后?

30.3.09


  这本书的来历嘛~不太光彩啦,我为全班团购《国学基本教材》,99的礼品送的1折书,所以说,26元的书我只花了2.6元。还好这个blog不会有什么人看到,我就当私人日记本,光明正大地写了。
  最近这一个月,市质检的作文我就是写的90后的话题,后来映春又布置了一篇《90后个性骄傲》,没有办法,刚读完这本书,顺手就“借鉴”了。
  说起来,安德烈不是90后,其实是80后来者,不过我发现他那80后壁我这90后还现代,还有个性。嗯,想起去年20个德国学生到我们学校访问,哦~那个成熟啊,高跟鞋、大卷发、化浓妆……我们一群人罩着大小副围着他们问东问西。中西教育观念不懂,我们这些90后的个性,到高中也磨得差不多了,就算有,平时也是藏着掖着,哪会光明正大地锋芒毕露。
  于是乎,当我写第一篇市质检考场作文《清狂但不轻狂》时,我是大气磅礴一泻千里,到写那《个性骄傲》,就只剩水龙头打开,没水,一滴两滴了。
  那么,看看安德烈的个性骄傲是什么呢?安安批评妈妈的衣着“就是披上一个装马铃薯的麻布袋或者盖上一条地毯”,他严正地对妈妈不要说:“你给我足够的自由,是的,但是你知道吗?你一边给,一边觉得那是你的‘授权’或‘施予’,你并不觉得那是我本来就有的天生的权利!”,他说Sound of Music是kitsch,他问龙应台对死亡对人生的看法……
  这本书我看得极快,速度快,心情也畅快。爽,安安说出了许多我心里的话。喜,龙应台这个妈妈的信读来亲切可感,情深意切,我不是厚此薄彼,但我的妈妈的确从来不曾在那些层面那种深度与我谈过去、谈文化、谈政府行为。

《美丽人生》中的人生之美

28.3.09

  有时候,越有时间,最想做的事却往往越做不成。就像我在3年钱就已听说了《美丽人生》这部片子,在闲得不行的初中暑假都没有看,却在忙得快昏了头的高三下学期抽时间给看了。不过,若我是在3年前就看了,恐怕不会如现在这般触动吧。

  在看完影片的一周,我的口头禅变成了Life is beautiful。是的,美丽人生。一如电影中的基多,影片一开始和朋友的驾车狂奔,和“公主”朵拉在一起的小聪明和那说不清是magic还是什么的事件——从天而降的钥匙、突如其来的帽子。当朵拉钻到桌子底下和基多接吻时,妈妈在一旁说:“怎么会这样~”,当即多骑着那匹绿色的犹太马吧朵拉带走时,妈妈又说:“太奇特了吧~”。没错,电影的前半部分堪比搞笑贺岁片了。

  乔舒亚的出场是令人惊艳的,抱歉我说经验,实在是太可爱的小朋友,还有他那声bye, grandma,聪明的他调皮地眨眼,嘴角泛笑。早已知道故事接下来的发展的我,面对他的笑靥,心却不可遏制地疼了起来,这样的孩子,要关进集中营吗?

  当然,剧情不会变,一段紧张沉重的音乐过后,画面的色调也开始变了。我爱基多的家,花团锦簇,棕色的小家具,橘黄的灯,是让人看一眼就会爱上的房子。集中营的天空,从来都不是蓝色的,触目可及的,尽是灰色砖墙和浓黑的大门,压抑的色调,压抑的心情。

  所以说,乔舒亚是幸运的,他有基多这样一位父亲,独自承担身体上的痛苦——那些非人的体力劳动,更重的是心灵的折磨,却能为孩子编制出美丽的谎言,为了那一万分,为了那first prize的坦克,原来,一切都是一场游戏,真的。

  乔舒亚信了,直到影片最后,他抱着母亲高喊We have won,我当然知道,we have won the victory of the war,只是,乔舒亚说,we have won the first prize.

  依旧难以释怀的是基多被抓的那个晚上。导演大概是深谙“狼来了之道”的。第一次,探照灯扫过,空无一人,我轻舒了口气。瞬间,光束定格,基多如壁虎般攀在墙上,什么时候了还要来这个一点也不好笑的笑料。纳粹士兵举枪对准基多,我分明已听到了自己攥紧拳头的声音,另一个纳粹阻止了他。慢慢活动手指,我再次放松下来。看,乔舒亚的眼睛正偷过垃圾东的缝隙看着父亲呢,基多那夸张的正步走真的让我笑出了声,早已忘了跟在身后的那支枪管随时会有死神钻出。枪响的时候,我还在笑,是那还未隐去的弧度。等那个纳粹士兵独自离开时,我才回过神,父亲…基多…

  请原谅我哭不出来,心都已疼得麻木了,泪腺大概也还没明白是怎么回事吧。

  可电影,毕竟,它叫《美丽人生》,用意大利文写是Vita è bella, La,用英文是Life is beautiful.是的,美丽人生。载着逐渐消沉的高三最后时光,这句话让我突然打了个颤。我在做什么,抱怨,自怨自艾,自暴自弃,彷徨失措,我有什么资格这么做。对于那些为我带来美丽人生的人,我有义务用最好的状态去迎接挑战,对于那些依旧身处困境的人,我也有责任为他们带去阳光,让所有人了解到,life is beautiful, whenever, whatever.


  PS.唯一可惜的就是,下载不到意大利语版,只有英语版,而且没有字幕。不过也幸好,英语版我还听得懂,若是意大利语,我就只能等于看哑剧了。

窗外

17.3.09

  从何时起,你会每天早上守在我的窗前,用清凉的歌喉唤醒沉睡的我。
  从何时起,你会三五成群,“明目张胆”地啄食着我窗前芦荟的花朵。
  从何时起,你我形成了那美好的默契,你唤我却不扰我,我静听却不惊你。
  一直任绿色的窗帘紧闭,吧自己关在暗青的房中,想象日光也无法穿透的原始森林,微笑地听你为我歌唱。
  不是没有想过,拉开帘子,看看你的模样,是否如我脑海中浮现的一般小巧、玲珑、俊俏、活泼。
  只是担心,那美丽的距离——即是只是层叠的绿纱,一但被抽走,胆小的你惊飞疾走,只留下一条微微乱颤的花茎,一如你澎湃却有些凌乱的心跳。
  冯骥才养珍珠鸟,鸟儿在一瀑倾泻的吊兰中嬉戏,如今的情景仿佛掉了个个儿,独坐幽暗中的是我。而你,我只望我的不知名的雀儿,能有远行于天地之间的自在与畅快,将我小小的窗,当作生活的驿站,可歇脚,可用餐,可自娱自乐,也可什么都不做,只是,伴着自己,顺便,在你不知道的时候,陪伴着我。

仰望星空又如何

6.2.09

  正月初九那天凌晨,我听了温总理在剑桥大学演讲的直播,我也听到了那个捣乱的人的口哨声。
  同样,我也看到了温总理在讲台上的正气凛然风度翩翩,更听到了温总理说的“这种卑鄙伎俩阻挡不了中英两国人民的友谊。人类的进步、世界的和谐是历史潮流,是任何力量都阻挡不了的。”
  然后是超长而热烈的掌声……

  那时候我那叫一个激动加感动啊。感动于总理的气度,激动于中国毕竟不够强大……
  然后,我给手机上的所有朋友发了短信,说我们能做得,只有为中华之崛起而读书。

  第二天,查看短信箱,回复我的人不到三分之一,再看看短信的内容,我的心都凉了。
  “国家领导人都这样的”“有时候是需要做做样子的”……
  还有说我“傻小孩甭激动”……

  什么叫做做样子,你们去做做看啊。人家拿鞋要扔的是我们的总理,人家扔上去的台上摆着中国国旗,人家是看不起中国看不起中国人民。那种时候,是个中国人都不会也不应该是做做样子,是个中国人都不应该回复我那种短信。

  我承认很多时候我是挺傻,我说过,我思想上是理想主义者(行为为思想服务)。或许现在说到愿望是国家富强人民幸福会有许多人笑话,但我不否认,我就是这么想的。可鲁迅先生也说了“沉默呵沉默,不在沉默中爆发,就在沉默中灭亡”,我从来不知道别人拿鞋扔我们的时候我们不能激动愤怒哪怕一下下。(不要拿布什说事,那家伙是在伊拉克出席记者会的时候被扔的,我们的总理却是在剑桥那样一座有着悠久学术历史与传统的学府做发言、进行友好交流的时候被扔的)

  这么愤怒地写文章不是我的个性,上一次,还是在初中,写了篇有感于同学不知道靖国神社。那一次,居然还成了我恶补日 本历史的一次机会……

  为什么我的愤怒都来自这样的质问,“你去了解一下会怎样,人家拜的是进行南京大屠杀的刽子手!”“你看看会怎样,人家侮辱的是中国人!”“你仰望星空会怎样,我们都是爱这个国家!”

  我说我效忠于这个国家,不是政府亦不是政党(这几个概念我还是分得清的),然而作文政府行为的外交访问此时就代表了国家。(很多时候,我们只会埋怨政府,却连带着看不起自己的国家。)

  温总理鼓励我们仰望星空,虽然泰勒斯因为仰望星空而掉进坑里,但黑格尔也说了:“只有那些永远躺在坑里,从来不仰望高空的人,才不会掉进坑里。”

  昨天晚上,翻了一下何兆武先生的《上学记》,序言里说到,他们那一代的人,忧心的是家国天下。
  就算现在的中国比那时候的中国强大了许多许多,但我们依旧被众多西方国家瞧不起。意识形态是一方面,这个我不想讨论,更重要的是因为我们不够强大(非所谓称霸),科技力量薄弱、经济基础薄弱、社会发展不平衡……
  我的朋友们一些和我一样是高三的学生,一些已经大学,一些还在高一高二。我的朋友们回复那样的短信给我,我们作为新中国前进的力量却不把祖国的尊严当一回事。我们安心地享受目前的一切,偶尔说说美国人工资高、英国人住有花园的小别墅、再对自己的生活摇摇头,一辈子就这么过去。我们不想着自己也有力量改变什么,我们只想别人创造好一切让我们来享用。

  当初,《恰同学少年》这部电视剧播出的时候,我没有时间看,却也断断续续扫了几眼。至今印象深刻的是某集的末尾,毛泽东在学校朗读梁任公的《少年中国说》,后来,人越聚越多,气势宏大,听得我心潮澎湃。
  “彼而漠然置之,犹可言也。我而漠然置之,不可言也。……
  “故今日之责任,不在他人,而全在我少年。少年智则国智,少年富则国富;少年强则国强,少年独立则国独立;少年自由则国自由,少年进步则国进步;少年胜于欧洲则国胜于欧洲,少年雄于地球则国雄于地球。
  “红日初升,其道大光。河出伏流,一泻汪洋。潜龙腾渊,鳞爪飞扬。乳虎啸谷,百兽震惶。鹰隼试翼,风尘吸张。奇花初胎,矞矞皇皇。干将发硎,有作其芒。天戴其苍,地履其黄。纵有千古,横有八荒。前途似海,来日方长。
  “美哉我少年中国,与天不老!壮哉我中国少年,与国无疆!”

  若真能如此就好了。
  若我们都能仰望星空,如此也不难。

偷着看的《往事并不如烟》

29.1.09


  有句话说:如果有本书想让所有人都读到,那最好的方法就是禁了它。
  的确,人都是有逆反心理的。本来吧,一本书放在那里,也不定去读它,可一旦知道它被禁了,倒老想知道它写些什么了。
  而我偏偏遇到一些语文老师,总爱给我们介绍书,说得天花乱坠的好,最后来一句“这本书禁了,你们买不到的”,让人郁闷。
  这回,老师又是红着眼圈跟我们讲康同璧的故事,向我们热荐章诒和的《往事并不如烟》,然后再告诉我们此为禁书。
  不过,现在是什么时代呀,什么东西是真正禁得了的,卓越当当淘宝孔夫子真的是禁了,我就谋划着上诚品三民去买,而后老妈说要让杨伯伯从香港帮我带才作罢。然而我又等不及了,匆匆忙忙地下载txt版先看再说。

  果然,书是要偷着看才有趣味的。我完全已经把之前在读的《子夜》放下了,全身心投入到章诒和营造的如烟往事中。
  对于书中人物的评价,我不想多说,毕竟这是我第一次读到关于那个时代的文字,章诒和的一家之言还不足以让我形成怎样的观念,章伯钧也说了“千万不要人家说什么,你就信什么,这其中包括老师讲的和报上登的”。不过那些故事(对于现在我来讲也只能是故事)真的让我觉得章伯钧、储安平都是些可爱的人,至少,我在读到储安平那篇给毛主席周总理提的意见时,心里还是蛮赞同的;我在看到章、储把《光明日报》视作自己辛苦培养的孩子,一心希望他能有自己的见地时,还是很感动的。
  不过我现在更在意的是章诒和的文笔。我向来喜欢细腻的笔触、舒缓的语气、时不时的幽默、娓娓道来的文章。一个系列嘛~从沈从文到汪曾祺到林斤澜,都是我喜欢的。《往事并不如烟》就是这个类型的,没有华丽的辞藻,偶尔引用的诗词恰到好处,大量对话的描写以及生活细节的展现,以及作者波澜不惊的口气,讲述那些被批判的日子,让我读来,只能是隐隐的心疼。

  对于“右派”这东西,我大概还比我的同龄人了解得更多,因为我爷爷我外婆都是右派。读着章诒和《往事》,想着以前爸妈或多或少提到的我们家的往事,感觉当年的外婆就像储安平一样是直言,自以为是提意见,傻傻的都不知道人家看到她这样自掘坟墓有多高兴。爷爷则是国民党某军官的秘书,直接划右派了。爸爸和叔叔也曾红着眼圈对我和堂姐讲当初他们在学校受到同学冷遇、批斗、吐口水的事。
  牛津大学出版社出版这本书,书名叫《最后的贵族》,就是康同璧母女那篇的小标题。说是贵族也不为过,读这本书,本身就像看一高干文(我没读过高干文,就是感觉像),毕竟章伯钧的身份也算是高的了。书中,众多我平时只能仰望甚至想象的人,政坛的,艺术方面的,轮番上阵,都跟章家有千丝万缕的联系。还有九十七间房的四合院,五六十年代有电话、老“别克”,还有“康熙时期造的墨,给乾隆爷进贡的纸,紫檀的笔架,端溪的砚台,还有祝允明、文徵明、吴昌硕、金农、郑板桥、吴大澂、康有为等人,以及我当时就认不得、现在也记不起的许多名家写的立轴、手卷、册页”……

  好吧,既然是禁书,有些东西还是不得不说的。我很遗憾,关于那个时代的文字,我接触得如此只少。就算爸爸就是政协的,作为“中国人民爱国统一战线的组织,中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商的重要机构”,我从爸爸那里了解到的东西几乎没有,就算我的众多老师都是民主党派,不过现在……
  印象中,历史课本上对那个“反右运动”几乎没有记录,现在,作为一个理科生的我甚至对文革的始末和评价没有一个稍微具体的了解。而我问了读文科的同学,对那段历史也是知之甚少。

  “自由”这个字眼,在《储安平与父亲的合影》一篇中出现的次数非常多。高二下学期,我上了“新闻模块”的选修课,我的老师在课堂上,非常认真地跟我们言论自由、出版自由、舆论自由的重要性。那时候我并不以为然,却单纯地喜欢陈寅恪先生提出的“独立之精神,自由之思想”,如今才知道,坚持自由,那是需要勇气与良心的。
  写到上一段的时候,突然听到新闻联播提到了《光明日报》的社论,顺手查了一下,《光明日报》就是在1957年章伯钧被车之后,改由中共中央宣传部和中共中央统战部领导的。

  而昨天找《往事并不如烟》时,查了章伯钧的资料,说是中国头号右派,我惊叹,我怎么没听说过!也是,章诒和也说了,史良的追悼会上,有民盟的人在谈论她的母亲李健生,说:
  “她叫李健生,是章伯钧的夫人。”
  “章伯钧是谁?”
  然后一片沉默
  ……