Pen of Life
筆
Suppose someone gave you a pen - a sealed, solid-colored pen.
假如有人送你一支筆，一支不可拆卸的單色鋼筆。
You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece(or several) that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don't know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!
看不出里面究竟有多少墨水。或許在你試探性地寫上幾個(gè)字后它就會(huì)枯干，或許足夠用來創(chuàng)作一部影響深遠(yuǎn)的不朽巨著(或是幾部)。而這些，在動(dòng)筆前，都是無法得知的。 在這個(gè)游戲規(guī)則下，你真的永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)預(yù)知結(jié)果。你只能去碰運(yùn)氣！
And of what would you write: Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything? Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yourself by writing for others? Would your strokes be tremblinglytimid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain? Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw? Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? Or are they?
你又會(huì)用筆寫下些什么呢：愛？恨？喜？悲？生？死？虛無？萬物？你寫作只是為了愉己？還是為了悅?cè)耍恳只蚴墙杼嫒藭鴮懚浼海磕愕穆涔P會(huì)是顫抖膽怯的，還是鮮明果敢的？你的想象會(huì)是豐富的還是貧乏的？甚或你根本沒有落筆？這是因?yàn)椋隳玫焦P以后，沒有哪條規(guī)則說你必須寫作。也許你要畫素描，亂寫一氣？信筆涂鴉？畫畫？你會(huì)保持寫在線內(nèi)還是線上，還是根本看不到線，即使有線在那里？嗯，真的有線嗎？
There's a lot to think about here, isn't there?
這里面有許多東西值得考慮，不是嗎？
Now, suppose someone gave you a life...
現(xiàn)在，假如有人給予你一支生命的筆……
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