圣诞节决定开车出门旅行。车门一关,就是自己的一个世界。路径是自己选择的,景色是变换的,外部世界被速度抛出一段不远不近的距离。这就使人产生错觉,好像只要自己不主动走进这个世界,就可以永远不走进去。所以,这个时候在感觉上最能够触摸自由。去的是美国首都华盛顿。这个地方去过几次了,却一直没有走进过阿灵顿国家公墓。在电视和电影里,这是一个经常可以看到的地方。印象很深的一次是在一年前。一个精神病患者枪击国会大厦,打死两个警卫,他们就是安葬在这个公墓。记得其中有个黑人警卫,他的妻子是一个端庄的华人。因此,在追悼会上,他们有着黑肤色的女儿,在悼词开始的一系列称呼中,突然用纯正的中文,叫着自己的外婆、姑姑、阿姨。...
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1. First SightThis was the time of day when I wished I were able to sleep.High school.Or was purgatory the right word? If there was any way to atone for my sins, thisought to count toward the tally in some measure. The tedium was not something I grewused to; every day seemed more impossibly monotonous than the last.I suppose this was my form of sleep—if sleep was defined as the inert statebetween active periods.I stared at the cracks running through the plaster in the far corner of the cafet
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