死亡的幻象

在每一世之后，你的身体已经变得非常疲倦，所以你需要一个新的身体、新的显现。旧有的波浪已经消失了，但是那个滚滚的水仍然停留在海洋里，它将会再度以新的波浪出现，旧的一直在变成新的，你要允许它、生命按照它的方式去走，而你带着很深的信任跟着它走。

高兴死了！！！

“愿灵魂安息吧。”这句话相当自私。它的根本意思是：“待在你的坟墓里，别在我身边游荡”。相反的一句话会是：“动不动翻个身吧”和“去跑个步吧”。

我们内心的冲突

不只注意那些让他预见失败的因素，还要注意那些让他始终害怕失败的因素

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.