Chapter 25 reading and eating

The girls all have a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder. They hesitate to leave before going out, and they promise "here, come, come, come, come..." while adjusting their clothes and hats in front of the mirror and raising their eyebrows. .I have a similar problem. I was urged by my parents during the Chinese New Year. Before going out, I stood in front of the bookcase in a daze: What to read when I pick a book? When I was a child, my mother hated me reading books while eating, and always felt that I "can't taste the food".So I had to pick out books before going out for dinner, and of course she was even more displeased. , Whether you look at it or not, you feel at ease with it.This situation didn't get better until I started using PSP's e-book software and iPad.To put it bluntly, I am a bit obsessive-compulsive, afraid that the book in my hand will not be satisfactory.

I have a friend who can't go anywhere without headphones.I like to listen to Hou Baolin and Guo Qiru's cross talk when I eat, and I like to listen to Davis's jazz when I'm on the sofa.If he was asked to listen to Komiya Mizuyo's piano music instead, he would immediately feel chilly and unable to eat anything.Another friend of mine talked with me about the matching of cigars, wine, and coffee.When I heard that I mixed vanilla vodka with bad coffee, I was very sad and thought I was a waste of money. In the same way, books are suitable for eating, drinking and sleeping. In fact, there are also choices.

There is an old saying about Yan Ruyu in the book, but there is actually another metaphor.Some books are like Audrey Hepburn, suitable for afternoon tea; some books are like Megan Fox, suitable for taking out for racing; Look, for fear of missing it.That's all. Especially idle books, take diet as a comparison.In general, like meat, it is divided into fat, lean and firewood; like tea, it is divided into temperature and cut.My personal experience is: the more modern the foreign language books translated, the heavier the translation tone, sharp, cold, and sharp.The translations of the older generation have more mellow and gentle sentences, and the translation tone is not heavy. Mr. Zhu Shenghao's Shakespeare, Mr. Fu Lei's Balzac, etc. are not mentioned, like Mr. Wang Keyi and Mr. Li Jianwu, the reading is still the same The warmth of the afternoon sun.

Chinese works are actually similar, but they have to be subdivided.The proses and poems of the ancient philosophers are easy to read but not rich, like beef jerky, which tastes delicious after biting too much, but the teeth are tired; this is especially true for the things in "Anthology", which is not an exception; the more recently published books, the clearer they are. Thin and easy to read, but slippery and not thick.Among the people I know, there are many people with similar tastes, who like to reread "Sanyan" and "Water Margin", so that Shen Congwen, Wang Zengqi, Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Ailing, etc., without him, these few people are all smart and rich. Stretch, fat but not greasy, thin but not sticky, and looks like sister Lin, "full of fragrance".Thinking about it carefully, probably one is that the people at that time had a good sense of language, and the other is that everyone’s written language has not yet begun to be greatly translated into accents.Not just novels, Jin Yong's "Critical Biography of Yuan Chonghuan" and Qian Mu are old, but the words and sentences are very easy to read, easy to learn, gentle and smooth.

Teacher Ma Sanli once said, "Learn books and play well, and you can't get tired of listening to folk art."Why is the older generation’s Pingtan singing so good?Ordinarily, the old gentlemen Hou, Guo, Liu, and Ma's cross talk, the laughter is not intensive, and it is also a matter of the short story of Youyouran's parents, why is it so listenable?I think it’s skill. Skillful cross talk, Peking opera, music, even drama recitation, film camera language and books are all so round and full of vigor, just like milky white fish soup boiled to the fire and home-cooked. There is a reason to buckle the meat.Italo Calvino said that classics must withstand re-reading. I think this is the skill of re-reading.Or take an example, everyone knows the plot and dialogue by heart, but how many people read it again and again?It's just a good taste.

I want to talk about the taste of the book, it’s a bit far away, come back. The following examples are just a little bit of personal experience, and the specific bibliography is just an example. It is not recommended to follow suit at all, just take a taste and meaning. For example, you go to eat a hot pot and read "Absalom!"Absalom! ", the basic mood is finished.Cold, sharp, and brisk reading for the first time, suitable for sunny journeys.For example, when reading Faulkner, Steinbeck, Cortazar and even physics textbooks while riding the train, you can easily swallow the passages that you can't read anymore.Also suitable for train journeys are various histories and illustrated books of various artistic buildings and plants published by the Commercial Press.Of course, historical biography is also divided. "Historical Records" is much more beautiful than other kinds of histories. It doesn't need to be specially used as a train reading material, and it can be read at ordinary times. For example, the two teachers Huang Renyu and Tang Degang compared each other quite solemnly. The latter It is easier to read daily than the former.

Of course, for dozens of hours of long-distance train travel, it is still necessary to prepare a few fat books that you will never get tired of reading, in case you are tired of reading and need to rest and adjust. "Military History of the Western World", "Literary Lectures", "Arale", you can read everything.All the short stories by Haruki Murakami and some of the less dark novels are good airplane books.Hemingway's short stories before the 1940s will make you feel refreshed and bright when you walk in the daytime, but you will feel depressed and cold when you read them at night.Marquez's works are more informal, the early ones are more gloomy, and the middle and late stages are mostly lively like flowers, suitable for food, congee and walking.Richer books, such as short essays by Shen, Wang, Liang, Shi, Zhang, and Qian, are very suitable for reading while eating.Wang and Liang's food essays are especially well-coordinated and stimulate appetite.The same applies to various popular novels and classical chapter novels, because most of the chapter novels are loose and tight, full of storytelling, soapy and fun, meaty, and very good for food.Before the fifty-five chapters, before Song Huilian's death, it was always a good passage to eat with all kinds of things.

For a while, I felt that Mo Yan's novels had a meaty taste, which was better for dinner than Yu Hua's (reading may or may actually reduce appetite).O’Henry’s stuff, most of Malamud’s novels with comic endings, and Calvino’s Marcovaldo series can all be snacks and desserts that can be picked up and read at any time. The tome is actually quite suitable for holidays, and you can read it while eating light snacks.I have friends who have tried many times, but have not finished.In fact, there is a similar problem with "The Brothers Karamazov". Russian novels have many names and nicknames, and if you don't pay attention, you will slip.So the holidays are used to read long things, the joy of one go, can keep the mood refreshed for several days - one of the benefits of a good book is that it can make people think clearly and feel refreshed, and see everything more clearly than usual. Of course, refreshment does not mean happiness.Then there are the seasons. Taking Yasunari Kawabata as an example, I don’t dare to read in winter, and it’s better to read when it’s cold.

One of the benefits of a big tome is hypnosis, but you have to pick the right book.Fat books are not suitable for hypnosis, and the sky will dawn if you are not careful.When I was a child, I watched the sleep aid, but after watching it all at once, I was so emotional that I couldn't sleep all night.Tuo Lao's stuff will give you nightmares.Too dry writing—like Nine Stories or Carver—just keeps you awake.Probably before going to bed, one is suitable for reading various original texts, and the other is suitable for reading the history of philosophy, history of thought, and art history (it can’t be Russell’s kind of gossip), and sleep directly when tired of reading.

If there is a situation where the so-called "although this book has connotations but is not easy to read, but I have no choice but to finish it", I personally feel that it is suitable for reading in the morning.I usually feel better when I get up early in the morning, and I will eat bravely and aggressively until noon. Alba went out to play a truth.