温莎墓园日记

离别，走的那个因为忙于应付新遭遇，接纳新印象，不及多想，而送别的那个，仍在原地，明显感到少一个人了，所以处处触发冷寂的酸楚----我经识了无数次＂送别＂后才认为送别者更凄凉。

一休禅诗

当你笑的时候，你的灵魂和你的身体是合一的，它们一起笑。当你在思考，你的身体和灵魂是分开的。

新千年文学备忘录

珀尔修斯的力量永远来自他拒绝直视，但不是拒绝他注定要生活于其中的现实。他随身携带着这现实，把它当作他的特殊负担来接受。

如何读，为什么读

Melville was not a Christian, and tended to identify with the ancient Gnostic heresy, in which the creator God of this world is a bungler and impostor, while the true God, called the Stranger or Alien God, is exiled somewhere in the outer regions of the cosmos.Early, major Faulkner is a kind of unknowing Gnostic; West, Pynchon, and McCarthy in their different ways are very knowing indeed. My subject is how to read their best fiction, and why, and not how to instruct my own readers in ancient heterodoxies (at least not here!), but the first sequence of four novels that I have chosen, in the wake of Melville, achieve their negative splendors in modes parallel to Gnostic visions, as we will see.