‘And does she like questions?’
‘That depends on the questions.’
‘Am I ever going to be told what you really think you’re doing?’
‘You have been told.’
‘Lie upon lie.’
‘Perhaps that’s our way of telling the truth.’ But then, as if she knew she had smiled once too often, she looked down and added quickly. ‘Maurice once said to me—when I had just asked him a question rather like yours—he said, “An answer is always a form of death”.’
There was something else in her face then. It was not implacable; but in some way impermeable.
‘I think questions are a form of life.’ She said nothing, though I waited. ‘All right. I treated Alison very badly. I’m a born cad, a swine, whatever you want. But why the colossal performance just to tell one miserable moral bankrupt what he is?’
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5 有用 比多 2014-12-13 17:29:12
真好!我们假设金庸是一个优秀的小说家,博学+传奇+情爱。那么约翰·福尔斯是这种方式上的极致。
2 有用 瘦竹 2014-12-02 10:43:51
好书。好书就是再长也不觉得长,看完还是有太多的疑问。
1 有用 paradiso 2018-06-17 22:38:41
情节复杂程度叹为观止,拿现在我们熟悉的东西打比方的话就有点像楚门的游戏然而真正的观众只有楚门自己...?高潮“审判”舞台设计得好棒。男主角对待女性的谬误态度真如审判时诊断书所言,我觉得作者对他还是太宽容了。人品不说,男主作为侦探的行动力相当强,带动剧情推进得很爽,这大概也是作者前言自述中“不能摆脱的青少年习气的束缚”之一部分。
1 有用 听说 2019-04-23 15:50:19
吊了这么多书袋,拳打希腊神话莎士比亚,脚踢荣格弗洛伊德,也依然是个很烂的故事
0 有用 影随茵动 2015-01-30 17:23:52
有点心理实验小说的味道,同时兼具学卷气。不如《收藏家》好看,福尔斯在这本书里有点太啰嗦了,很挑战耐心。