大联盟

• duckducker

  2023-01-31
  We danced for four days, which turned out to be the exact length of the investigation, and by the time my aunt’s taxi pulled in at JFK, Brett had proved once again that whenever a young Brett is born in these United States, born with a dream, that dream can truly come true. Yes, sir, if your baby Brett really puts his mind to it—if he believes, if he has faith, if he is a he, and if he is called Brett—he can do whatever it is he puts his mind to, and that goes double for all you Troys, Kips, Tripps, Bucks and Chads.
• duckducker

  2023-02-17
  Moods were collective yet circumscribed; one put one’s mood in the service of the group; there were seasons of moods and places to have them, and the work of managing moods was never left to any one body alone because no one could imagine that a single consciousness could ever process or contain all the moods that there are on this earth without feeling like they were being "torn apart inside." (Possession, zombies, speaking in tongues, exorcism, automatons, uncanny valleys, body-snatching, devil-control, hoodoo.)
• duckducker

  2023-02-04
  And now that she was, at long last, no longer beautiful, her opinions were all she had.
• duckducker

  2023-01-31
  Yet sometimes he wished that she could see, as he did, that theirs was a steely bond, not as easily broken as she seemed to imagine—one which he would never, ever give up, no matter how many four-bedroom apartments or soda fountains he came across in this life. Who else could make him agree to appear before his classmates in a pair of long johns, a nightshirt and a droopy hat with a bell on it? What larger sign of fealty could a knight offer a princess than his pride?
• duckducker

  2023-01-31
  He who sounds to himself without earbuds is especially precious to me now, like hearing the song of a bird long thought extinct.
• duckducker

  2023-01-31
  In my experience, the less claim a person has to a thing the harder they chase it.
• duckducker

  2023-01-31
  For the sisters, this business of photographs is a form of labor that fills each day to its limit, just as the Lazy River fills ours. It is an accounting of life that takes as long as life itself.
• duckducker

  2023-01-28
  They want to be the subject in all situations. Don’t you try and be the subject. And don’t try to make them laugh and don’t tell them they’re pretty.
• duckducker

  2023-01-28
  As social experiments they were unimpeachable.
• duckducker

  2023-01-28
  What the woman had said was true, in intention, but what the girl had said was true, too, in reality.
• 武嘉祁

  2023-01-28
  后来时间到了。孩子们大怒，他们尚不明白时间到了的意思，在我们为他们解开保护带时，对我们又踢又抓。但我们没有停手，我们没有认输；不，我们搂紧他们，包容他们的愤怒，把他们的愤怒统统吸收进我们体内，如同我们包容他们每次胡闹乱发脾气一样，以此替换真正的愤慨。当然他们尚不了解这种愤慨，因为我们还未告诉他们，因为我们在休假——这是我们到一间有懒人河的酒店来的目的。讲真的，并不存在合适的时机。
• 武嘉祁

  2023-01-28
  昨天，懒人河一片绿色。没有人知道原因。众说纷纭。每种说法都涉及尿。这种颜色是因为里面有尿，或是为掩盖尿味而加入的化学药品的颜色，或是尿和氯或某种别的未知的化学制剂所产生的反应。我相信这事和尿有关。我自己就在那里面小过便。但让我们觉得如此心烦的并不是尿。哦，这片绿色所带来的不幸后果是以一种非常煞风景的方式迫使人集中注意到懒人河在本质上是人造的。忽然间，原来看似自然而然的事——慢悠悠地在一个无休止的圆环中漂流，同时听着今夏的热门歌曲，那首歌恰巧名叫“慢悠悠”——似乎非但不自然，而且离奇得很。不大似一个抛开人生的假期，倒更像是某种可怕的对人生的隐喻。这种感觉不仅限于当时在场的少数几位隐喻爱好者。大家都这么觉得。假如一定要我打个比方，我会说，它就像亚当和夏娃看着自己、第一次意识到他们在别人眼里是赤身裸体时心中所产生的那种羞愧。
• 武嘉祁

  2023-01-28
  招生简介上蒙骗了学生的那种种幻想——年轻人顺水漂流或在高高的草丛间讨论哲学的画面——只有利昂实现了那样的生活。从图书馆装有彩绘玻璃的圆形大厅，莫妮卡会看见他在下面，逍遥自得：躺在后园草地上，对着一头奶牛的脸吞云吐雾，或和一大群新生坐着方头平底船，喝着西班牙香槟。与此同时，她却在撰写和修改她关于十八世纪花园诗的论文。莫妮卡的生活里全是作业。
• 武嘉祁

  2023-01-28
  “你知道什么更美好吗？”他说，“假如没有母系社会也没有父系社会，人们只说：‘爱让我们的身体结合，我们融为一体。’”“别恶心。”她说。