A.J.提議過邀請利昂·弗里德曼來參加婚禮,阿米莉婭拒絕了。
但他們的確商量好讓阿米莉婭大學時的一位朋友在婚禮上讀《遲暮花開》中的一段。
“因為從心底害怕自己不值得被愛,我們獨來獨往,”那段是這樣的,“然而就是因為獨來獨往,才讓我們以為自己不值得被愛。有一天,你不知道是什么時候,你會驅車上路。有天,你不知道是什么時候,你會遇到他(她)。你會被愛,因為你今生第一次真正不再孤單。你會選擇不再孤單下去?！?/p>
———《島上書店》
What is the most horrific picture you have ever seen?
The kiss of Judas.
No gore, torn limbs or splattered brains and yet this picture is horrifying, at least to me, but why? You might want to ask.
The picture was first printed in a Spanish newspaper captioned The kiss of Judas. It shows a bull, sent out in a ring to endure torture and eventually death, running up to his breeder, the only face which he recognises in this crowd maddened by the frenzied euphoria of this barbaric sport. The bull, perhaps in pain, feels that his owner, the man who reared him since he barely learnt to walk, would save him and so he reaches forward only to be kissed back by the man and sent back to his death.
The picture depicts our hypocrisy as a species; we take pride in calling ourselves civilized beings and yet we kill beings lesser to us for sport and entertainment. In earlier times similar rings were occupied by wild animals, the gladiators, the slaves and the savages and now they are occupied solely by animals. Some darn progress humanity has made!
跑步教會我的是自律，是克制，是不放棄，是死磕到底。
——路明 意林
