遇见的文字
参加夜读会是很偶然的事情。记忆中是在刷朋友圈时,无意看到相关的报名信息,就下了单,报了名。读过好一些篇目,每一期14篇,参加了三期,该读了42篇左右。印象最深刻的,是爱因斯坦写给玛加丽达的信。夜读只截取了一小部分,那部分的内容,写的是爱因斯坦洗头,但不是很成功的事情。
“People said that I am very
smart, but I’m helpless with it. Just recently I washed my head by myself, but
not with the greatest success; I am not as careful as you are, but everything
here reminds me of you. Men are living now just the way they were before, as if
we didn’t have a new, all-overshadowing danger to deal with.”
其实,明明只是简单的一些文字,不知为何,那天在公交车上读着的时候,内心竟然有一种充盈的实在感,仿佛它是写给我的,而我是信中的那位情人。再仔细阅读,信中描写的是生活上的小细节,但是质朴的描述宛如镶嵌在花瓶上的凹凸质感,摸上去,真实的感觉,深深印在记忆中。
对于真实的生活描写文字很是喜爱。如果文字写得太浮夸,那好像漂浮一过的阵风,捉摸不住,虚无不实在,弄得心里空虚得很。但如果是实在贴着土地而涌出来的文字,则给人另一番感受。它们仿佛是吸取土地养分,日益茁壮的小野菊,在平淡的日子里,依旧有着如日光般的生活气息,或是在风中飘飘散散的,或是在草株上静默不语,扎着根活着的,紧密地连着赖以生存的一切,稳稳牢牢地生活着,让人看着心安。
又读到过这样一段文字,文章的题目是《我的父亲》:
“He wasn’t a hero, known by
the world. But a hero he was, to his little kid. My daddy was God, who knew all
things. And better than Santa, with the gifts he’d bring. I knew his voice
before I could speak. And loved it when he would sing me to sleep. He changed
my diapers, and sat up all night when my body was weak……”
语言都是一些极其平凡的文字,小孩子嫩嫩稚稚的语气。当读到“he changed my diapers”时,一位独自在家中,给孩子乱糟糟地换着尿片的父亲形象,跃然于纸上。后面写道“sat up all night when my body was weak”,父爱的伟大好像在小孩子的嫩稚的口吻中,深刻地体现了出来。
我想,好的文字,必定能够描写抒情都得当的吧……