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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期日 四月 20, 2008 7:34 pm 发表主题: |
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Thanks for the comment.
On a journey, aging --
I wander around
the rugged wilderness. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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christine[christine] christine作品集 四品府丞 (封疆大吏也!)
注册时间: 2008-02-25 帖子: 304
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发表于: 星期四 四月 24, 2008 1:02 pm 发表主题: Re: Growing Old (new version) |
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I am dreading that day. Everything seems to have passed me by; I yearn for unseized moments. The high expectations of youth have given way to the sad acceptance that my life has been and will be uneventful: just a series of life events. Sometimes a sense of sadness creeps into my chest, like a needle probing my ribs. I'm not happy; yet I'm not looking for happiness.
Maybe there is a moment in your life, when your mind out-lives its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, when your losses ... Maybe death is a precious gift given to human beings. |
In my view, life is pleasant, death is peaceful; it's the transition that's troublesome.
For writers who want to create something lasting, every time he/she writes, he/she ages, or more correctly speaking, dies a little getting his/her story right.
You get your story right. |
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robarts[robarts] robarts作品集 六品通判 (官儿做大了,保持廉洁哦)
注册时间: 2008-03-24 帖子: 114 来自: Canada
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发表于: 星期四 五月 01, 2008 3:09 pm 发表主题: Re: Growing Old (new version) |
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Growing Old
Since I passed the age of forty, I have become more anxious about growing old.
Days go by, hair whitens, hands age, veins appear, and sad wrinkles set in around the lips. The back begins to ache; teeth become loose. The voice acquires a hoarseness that some find charming. The body grows dry and brittle, like a bare tree in winter, and one day it will no longer respond. I am dreading that day. Everything seems to have passed me by; I yearn for unseized moments.
All of these acts just stall this evil. The daily routine is the true king of terrors. Yet what do I really know about death? Nothing! Nobody comes back to shore. Maybe there is a moment in your life, when your mind out-lives its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, when your losses ... Maybe death is a precious gift given to human beings. |
"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life'ss parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. ... Death does away with time."
-- Simone de Beauvoir's A Very Easy Death _________________ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. |
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ericcoliu[ericcoliu] ericcoliu作品集 二品总督 (刚入二品,小心做人)
注册时间: 2007-05-29 帖子: 1393 来自: GTA, Canada
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发表于: 星期五 五月 02, 2008 3:39 pm 发表主题: |
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I have read Beauvoir’s book, A Very Easy Death, a merciless record of the trivia of growing old and old age: bed wetting, pubic baldness, enemas, Levin tubes, indignity, pain, and eventually death.
Her 1970 groundbreaking book, Old Age, was the first book to break the silence about the humiliations of growing old, and even to probe the sexuality and desires of the old, 'that shameful secret'. _________________ Time is nothing but a disquiet of the soul |
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