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Chapter 62 "Bobo Skirt"

mental gymnastics 刘心武 1514Words 2018-03-18
Susan called and didn't hear her for a long time, so she couldn't help saying "Who is that" to her self-reported name, and she laughed over there: "It's not Su San from 'Su San Qi Jie', it's Susan !" Immediately, I saw her...to be honest, not her face, but those designer clothes on her body.I said: "Hey, you, are you looking for an appointment with me? Which new publication have you moved to?" She laughed and said, "This time I want to borrow something from your house!" I was just wondering, She said, "Let my aunt answer the phone, I'm asking her to borrow it!" I had to take the mobile phone into the back room and pass it to my wife who was reading the newspaper. They chatted and laughed, and I went back to the study and started typing on my computer.

In the afternoon, Susan arrived at the appointment of her husband.I’m still not sure about her appearance. I’ve met her several times in the past two years. Her hairstyle is different each time. The first time I saw a mole under the corner of her mouth, but it disappeared when I met her again. I remember asking if she moved. The operation removed it, and she laughed and told me that the mole was glued on, and it was a famous brand of fake mole in France, which made me feel ignorant and ignorant.But she is very particular about her clothes every time, some of them don't need to be said by herself, I also know that they are famous brands.This day, her hair was cut short to meet her ears, fluffy but not messy, her plain face and lips looked extraordinarily generous; she was wearing casual clothes as usual, and I asked what brand it was?For the first time, she didn't mention the brand but shook her head and said, "Never mind it!"

While my wife was joking with her, I realized that Susan had brought a piece of silk and wanted to borrow our family's pedal sewing machine and ask my wife to be a guide to make a skirt by myself.I couldn't help asking her, why did she come to be so elegant?While cutting and sewing with her husband, she laughed and "recruited" with me. Susan said that the inspiration came from the movie "Zhou Yu's Train". Gong Li's blue flower silk dress fluttering on the screen from time to time is really intoxicating!I said, yes, Sun Zhou used some close-ups to show the elegance of the skirt, which is beautiful!It was Susan's turn to be surprised: "You also went to the cinema to watch it?" My wife said: "We went together, but we didn't buy a couple seat. Why, at our age, can't we enjoy it?" Susan clapped her hands happily: "Yeah, it turns out that bosom friends are everywhere!" So she went on to say that Zhou Yu's image conquered her, and it wasn't just the blue silk dress. Life!

I asked Susan, wouldn't it be childish to have to make a blue floral silk dress by myself just because I saw such a movie?Susan said that if it is just imitation, it is indeed nothing more than a groupie, but she is guided by a theory. She thinks that the movie is actually a derivative of that theory. What theory?It means "this clan and that clan are all inferior to the Bubo clan"!Bubo tribe, I said that I have seen some introductions in the media, so what does that have to do with this skirt?Susan talked while stepping on the sewing machine: "Bourgeois are well-off people, well-off, well-fed, decent and generous. Under this premise, they do not pursue material code values, but pursue poetic survival. This skirt is poetic. A symbol of survival. Now I have an epiphany. Famous brands do not have to be rejected, but a well-off is better than a rich man. I choose according to my own wishes, and even non-brand-name clothes sewn by myself are better than fairy clothes! Bohemia, in fact, I can understand In order to choose a career freely, money must be earned and rules must be obeyed, but why rush for fame and fortune all day long? If you don’t get along, leave. Job hopping not only brings more opportunities for yourself, but also makes the society lively and lively like flowing water. And besides the so-called career, wouldn’t it be a great pleasure to find some free time and make a silk dress or something else you like?” She expressed her eloquence, and my wife and I couldn’t help laughing.

The sewing machine has not been used for a long time, and some oil has been temporarily injected. The sound of rolling skirts is not like bees buzzing but like birds chirping. Watching such a youthful girl sewing "bubo skirts", I have a lot of thoughts. "Bubo" is a new modern discourse.Since the reform and opening up, how many modern discourses have come from the West and been localized?When it comes, there are lightning flashes and thunder, and when it leaves, it goes away like the wind, but almost all of them leave traces in this world.Some of the domestic film discs stored in my study for more than 20 years constitute a track that can be traced until the release of "Zhou Yu's Train" in 2003. Will the "train" leave soon?Will that elegant blue flower silk dress be caught by other symbols soon?But looking ahead from this latest trace, my heart swells

A lot of joy.It's not a movie review, I know that Sun Zhou's new movie has also attracted sharp criticism; let alone discussing the concept of "Bubo" and related theories, I also know that there are many harsh responses in this regard.So what am I writing about?Write a mood. The strongest ingredient in this mood is like a cube of sugar, which dissolves in the coffee cup of the times and the world, neutralizing the bitterness and sweetness.
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