z***a
发帖数: 56 | 1 Faulkner << As I lay dying>>
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep, and before you are
emptied for sleep, you are not, and when you are filled with sleep, you never
were. I dont know what I am, I don't know if I am or not, Jewel knows he is ,
because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot
empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not.
Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours,
the load | n******e
发帖数: 140 | 2 I find very hard to read Faulkner, I've read "The sound and the fury",
his language is difficult, but in a deliberate and calculated way,
unlike Virginia Woolf, whose writing demands intelligence and concentration
from a reader, but has every reason to be and rewards the reader enormously
if he's persistent enough to pull through.
I have same difficulty with Steinbeck, ("East of Eden"), maybe it's just
my inability to appreciate the southern culture in general.
【在 z***a 的大作中提到】
: Faulkner << As I lay dying>>
: In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep, and before you are
: emptied for sleep, you are not, and when you are filled with sleep, you never
: were. I dont know what I am, I don't know if I am or not, Jewel knows he is ,
: because he does not know that he does not know whether he is or not. He cannot
: empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not.
: Beyond the unlamped wall I can hear the rain shaping the wagon that is ours,
: the load
| t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 3 正在看Ken Kesey 的《Sometimes A Great Notion》。开头也是巨难适应，不过耐心看到
2/3，发现还是值得。
never
is ,
cannot
not.
ours,
that
not
YUet
and
empty
is.
【在 n******e 的大作中提到】
: I find very hard to read Faulkner, I've read "The sound and the fury",
: his language is difficult, but in a deliberate and calculated way,
: unlike Virginia Woolf, whose writing demands intelligence and concentration
: from a reader, but has every reason to be and rewards the reader enormously
: if he's persistent enough to pull through.
: I have same difficulty with Steinbeck, ("East of Eden"), maybe it's just
: my inability to appreciate the southern culture in general.
| z***a
发帖数: 56 | 4 伊甸之东有很浓的圣经味儿，我倒是有点喜欢里面那个邪邪的Kate。
花了半天啃了三百页Faulkner差点没噎死，不过越发的有斗志了，决定找点难读的东东自
虐。
never
is ,
cannot
not.
ours,
that
not
YUet
and
empty
is.
【在 n******e 的大作中提到】
: I find very hard to read Faulkner, I've read "The sound and the fury",
: his language is difficult, but in a deliberate and calculated way,
: unlike Virginia Woolf, whose writing demands intelligence and concentration
: from a reader, but has every reason to be and rewards the reader enormously
: if he's persistent enough to pull through.
: I have same difficulty with Steinbeck, ("East of Eden"), maybe it's just
: my inability to appreciate the southern culture in general.
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