Chapter 4 fourth quarter

I never thought of meeting her. But that doesn't mean I don't want to see her, but I always thought we didn't need to. We share a desk, sit in the same chair, and look at the same blackboard every day. When taking notes in class, my hands will lean on the table; When class is over, occasionally I will take a nap lying on the table, with my right or left cheek pressed against the table. The same is true when she is copying notes, or when she is resting on the table because of fatigue? On the coordinates of space, we overlap at the same point, with no distance at all. The only distance, only time.

I leave school at 5:15, and she starts class at 6:00, less than an hour apart. In theory, as long as I want to, and I'm bored enough, I can meet in the classroom for 45 minutes after school. But for ordinary high school students like us whose heart beats only for the entrance exam, No one is on campus for an extra minute after school. What's more, almost all the students have to go to the cram school for cramming, so they have to leave the campus in a hurry. If someone enjoys the evening leisurely on the campus after school, Then he must have collapsed under the pressure of entering school, or gone crazy.

She leaves work at 5:30, and by the time she rushes to school it will be very close to 6, and she may even be late. And my psychological quality is not bad, and I will not stay on campus after school because of a breakdown. So even though the distance between me and her is only 45 minutes, But as long as we don't leave our current high school life mode, we probably won't see each other. Paradoxically, once we leave our present life, we no longer overlap at the same point. Then how should we meet? "Maybe one day in the future, we will meet." "Yes. Maybe someday."

That's the end of this topic. In addition to small talk, we occasionally discuss homework. It's not quite right to say "discussion", it should be pure complaint. She is a student in the social group, and I am a student in the natural group. I would complain to her about the difficulty of physical chemistry, and she would complain to me about the boringness of history and geography. "Why did the Song Dynasty become weak?" "Because Bao Qingtian is stern and selfless, he is not afraid of the powerful, and he insists that the prince commits the same crime as the common people when he breaks the law.

In the Song Dynasty, all the criminals were princes, so Bao Qingtian beheaded too many princes, ministers and generals, All civil and military officials in the imperial court were almost beheaded by him. Could the Song Dynasty not be weak? " "nonsense!" "It's my turn to ask you. Do you know what kind of motion the moon goes around the earth?" "have no idea." "Then do you know that the moon moves away from the earth at a rate of nearly 4 centimeters per year?" "have no idea." "Why does the moon gradually move away from the earth?"

"have no idea!" From here you can see the difference between my personality and hers. If she asked me, I would talk nonsense; if I asked her, she would pretend to be dead. Although this kind of question and answer usually has no intersection, we never get tired of it. Christmas time is here, and the bookstore is full of Christmas cards. I picked a card, the simple and cheap kind. In order to repay my kindness, I went to the gift shop and bought a wind chime, which I planned to give her as a Christmas present. This wind chime is quite sensitive, and it jingles with a slight shake, so sensitive that it is almost hysterical.

I brought the card and the wind chime to school to surprise her. "The Buddha said that you looked back five hundred times in the previous life, only to pass by in this life. Then guess, how many times have we looked back in our previous lives? Merry Christmas to you. " Unexpectedly, what I saw this morning was not a note, but a card. She was one step ahead of me, and I was a little embarrassed, but fortunately, I had already brought the cards and wind chimes to school. I gently put the packaged wind chimes into the drawer, and this slight disturbance still made it ding dong dong.

Then I write on the card: "The number of times we looked back must have exceeded 500 times. Because we are not passing by, but sitting on farts. Sitting while wiping farts is more powerful. Merry Christmas to you. ps. You still have presents, I'm so happy for you.Tears fell while talking. " "Wow! I didn't expect to get a Christmas present, thank you." "You're welcome. Do you like the gift?" "I like it. This is a very practical anti-theft device." "Anti-theft device? That's a wind chime! Big sister." "I know, but this wind chime is very sensitive. I hang it by the window. If a thief wants to

Climb in with the window open, and it's bound to ring.So it's a good anti-theft device. " "It's better that way." "This Sunday, I will also pick out a gift for you, just wait." On Tuesday morning, I found my Christmas present in the drawer. It is a selection of old Western songs from the 1960s and 1970s. I was surprised and delighted. I remember that when I left home to study in Tainan, I brought more than ten volumes of old Western songs in my luggage. My habit of listening to old Western songs was influenced by my sister, and she gave me the tapes.

When I first arrived in Tainan, a place I was not familiar with, I used to play these tapes all night long. Those songs can calm my mind instead of flustered and help me sleep well. When sitting at the desk, I often read while listening to these tapes. "How do you know I like listening to old Western songs?" "I don't know. Because I like listening to it very much, I picked a volume and gave it to you." "Thank you. There are six songs in it that I haven't heard, they are very nice." "I didn't expect that we all like to listen to old Western songs. By the way, can you play an instrument?"

"None of them will. What about you?" "I'll play an instrument that's bad for you and me." "You and I are not good? I've never heard it. What kind of instrument is that?" "It's called "Guitar" just because you and I are not good." "Oh, your bad jokes still haven't improved." Since knowing that we have this common interest, we often exchange tapes in the drawer. She has many more tapes of oldies than I do, and she knows more about songs than I do. Occasionally I would write out some playlists that I wanted to listen to, and she could always find the tapes quickly, Then put it in a drawer. There are more tapes on my desk, and more than half of them are not mine. "My favorite song is "Diamonds and Rust". Want to hear the story of this song?" "All ears. You should write in detail." "Diamonds and Rust" is Joan Baez, known as "Queen of Ballads" (to read Joan Baier, not Joanbeth) best composition. Joan Baez in the late 50's Involved in the American folk song movement, her voice was almost perfect, and she soon made her mark in the music scene. In the 1960s, she got acquainted with Bob Dylan (Bab Dylan), known as the "father of folk songs", The two cherished each other and admired each other's talents, so they fell in love.After that, the two went around When they sang, they were almost inseparable, and they were the family members of the gods that everyone admired at the time.It's a pity that this part The relationship ended without a problem. " "I know why they can't be together because one is called the Father of Folk Songs and the other is called After the folk song, the father cannot match the queen, otherwise the mother will be miserable. " "The title is not the point. Because they are also called the Emperor of Ballads and the Queen of Ballads respectively." "The name Empress reminds me of Wu Zetian. Could it be that Joan Baez is very fierce? So the folk song Emperor I have no choice but to like folk songs about noble concubines or ballads about court ladies. " "You're boring, do you want to listen to a story?" "Yes. You must be thirsty. There's a can of drink in the drawer." "Thank you. Joan Baez wrote "Diamonds and Rust" in 1975 in memory of her and There is a love like diamond and rust between Bob Dylan. " "I've always had a question, why is the song called: Diamonds and Rust?" "You have to understand it from the lyrics. If on a night with a full moon many years later, you suddenly receive How do you feel when your old lover calls? " "I would say: forgive me, I have a child." "Hello. How are you feeling?" "At present, I don't know, I can only try to understand." "The lyrics are a bit long and obscure, after all, it describes Joan Baez's state of mind. Come to think of it, When a person compares himself to rust, but compares the person he loves deeply to a diamond, that is What kind of mood? " "This is a state of mind that boosts the ambitions of others and destroys one's own prestige." "I seem to be playing the piano to a cow. You don't understand this feeling at all." "I will work hard to study the lyrics, so it's okay." "There's something interesting about the lyrics. Last month I saw the video of Joan Baez singing live, She actually sang TwentyyearsagoIboughtyousomecufflinks. " "The lyrics should be: TenyearsagoIboughtyousomecufflinks." "Yeah. So you guess why Joan Baez sang it wrong?" "She's old, so she remembered the lyrics wrong?" "No. Because it has been more than 10 years since she wrote this song in 1975. So in the lyrics The sentence "I bought cufflinks for you ten years ago" needs to be added with another 10 years, so it becomes Twenty years ago. " "That's boring." "You don't get it. For Joan Baez, Diamonds and Rust is alive, So as time changes, the time in the lyrics will also change. " "It's too esoteric, harder to understand than physics." "Then you just listen to the music. There is also a song "Blowing in the wind" on that tape, It is Bob Dylan's masterpiece.Joan Baez used to sing this song with him. " I have the song "Blowing in the wind" on my tape, and I used to listen to it very often. Howmanyroadsmustamanwalkdown Before they call himaman... How many roads must a man walk before he can be called a man? You don’t need to walk too much or for too long, just write three 10,000-character essays in a row, and it’s still the same essay, It must be possible to change from a man to a man. Maybe it can change from a simple writer to a fraudster. "Why do you play the guitar?" "I'm learning guitar so hard for Diamonds and Rust. Maybe someday, I can play this song for you. " "If we can listen to you play the guitar, how many times do we have to look back in our previous life?" "This is much harder than passing by. I think I have to look back at least a thousand times." "Look back a thousand times? Your neck will twist." "It's worth it. If you hear me play "Diamonds and Rust", you will be moved Weep bitterly. " "It's easy for me to cry bitterly. I often cry bitterly when you tell bad jokes." "Hey, my bad jokes are very classic." "But when you play the guitar to me one day, you have to be careful about the strings of the guitar." "Be careful? Why be careful?" "The strings of the guitar may be broken. The ancients often said: When the strings are broken suddenly, there must be heroes to listen. Because I'm a hero, so the guitar strings should break. " "Hard to laugh, zero points." On the topic of playing the guitar, she is always in high spirits, and it is easy to feel the enthusiasm from the words. She also told me that the first Western song she learned to play was "DonnaDonna". "DonnaDonna" is actually an Israeli folk song, and Donna means freedom. She said the song appeared on Joan Baez's debut album in 1960. It seems like she has a soft spot for Joan Baez. "Hey, winter vacation is coming soon, let me first say Gong Xi Fa Cai." "It's more than two weeks before Chinese New Year! Will we die if we talk about it later?" "Can't you read Chinese? "Winter vacation is coming soon." "What about the winter vacation? There are still tutorials, so I have to come to school." "That's your kind of normal high school students. We are make-up students, and winter vacation is winter vacation." "You don't have to go to class during the winter vacation?" "Yes, enjoy your winter vacation tutoring class, I will start my vacation tomorrow. Gong Xi Fa Cai." "Hey!" She didn't reply to the note, so she was on vacation. As for me, except for a few days off during the Chinese New Year holiday, I still have to attend classes during the rest of the time. The same classroom, blackboard, teacher, desks and chairs, but there is no note in the drawer anymore. It's so empty, I feel this way every day when I enter the classroom. And I think this winter vacation is so long.