必有人重写爱情

给我印象深的是苏联动画片《一朵小红花》，具体情节都忘了，只记得女主角是个小姑娘，为寻找世界上美的小红花与怪兽（王子的化身）相逢。影片结尾处，她一路呼喊“凯哥哥——”，异常凄厉，一直深入我梦中。

渴望生活

“他当然是疯了。可你有什么办法？所有的艺术家都是疯子。这是他们身上最好的东西。我喜欢他们这种样子。有时候，我恨不得自己也疯了才好！39;但凡优秀的人都免不了是个半疯！39;你知道这话出自谁人知口吗？亚里士多德①，那就是说这个话的人。”

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.