Chapter 50 nostalgia for a better world

Southern Weekly published an article that concluded: "I don't know how to tell this person: we can't be young forever, with tears in our eyes, and still have nostalgia for a better world." Half of the sentence Borrowed from Kerouac's famous line: "Forever young, always full of tears." Obviously, I was impressed by this statement.In the same book, the sentence that impressed classmate Xu Jia described the breakup of two people who were so young that they would not be sad: "Love is really like a duel, let us take another deep look at each other .” What Xu Xing likes most is the ending paragraph of this book:

"In America, at sunset, I sat on an old, dilapidated riverside pier, looking at the vast New Jersey sky, and contemplating the unbelievably huge mountain range that stretches out to the west coast. undeveloped land, and the roads that stretch out, and all the things that come and go and the people who are immersed in dreams in this vast expanse of land, I know that now, in Iowa, when people allow Where the children are crying, the children are crying loudly. Tonight, the stars will come out. Do you know that the constellation Ursa Major is God? The star at dusk must be lowering its head, throwing its shining brilliance into the field, In a little while the total night will come, and the night will bless the earth, hide the rivers, wrap the mountains, hide the last beaches, and no one, no one at all will know it, except that I am sadly getting old Besides, what's going to happen. I miss Dean, Mariad, I miss even old Dean, Mariad, the old father we never found, I miss Dean, Mariad. "

It's really young without limit, sad and happy, and hearty. Too much nonsense, in fact, what I want to talk about today is another book by Kerouac, "The Angel of Desolation".Dean in the book becomes Cody Pemley in this book. In 1956, Snyder introduced Desolation Peak to Kerouac, so Kerouac applied for a job as a fire watchman, and stayed alone in the Hungry Mountains for 63 days, with Desolation Peak at his feet , To the north is Huo Zuomin Peak, and to the south is Jack Peak, where he is isolated from the world, lonely, afraid, wandering, practicing Zen, and meditating on the secrets of the universe and life.Just choose a peaceful and beautiful passage:

"I looked up at Hozomin Peak, still full of power, its reddish-brown peak soaring into the sky, and I picked up the shovel and carefully chose my way up, filling the bucket with fresh and clean white snow A space between carrots and cabbages in some deep new snow hole. I came back and dumped the bucket of snow into a tin basin and splashed some water on the dusty floor. I took the bucket like Going down like an old Japanese woman, through the beautiful heath, to gather wood for the fireplace. At this moment, the whole world is Saturday afternoon. " From the poets and painters of the Impressionists to the end of Kerouac, in less than 100 years, life could have been great.Life can be small these days.What about the future?It may not be possible to be small. "No one knows at all what will happen to them other than their own sad aging."