Just like reading so many books of Wang Xiaobo, the image of Wang Xiaobo gradually becomes three-dimensional in consciousness. Every time you read a book, it is like talking with an old friend after a long separation.
What I like best is a passage written by Wang Xiaobo in The Golden Age. It was only when I read that passage that I understood the meaning of the word "Golden Age" more deeply.
I was twenty-one years old that day. In the golden age of my life, I had many extravagant hopes.
I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a half-bright and half-dark cloud in the sky in an instant.
I learned later that life is a slow process of getting hammered. People get older day by day, and their hopes fade away day by day, and finally they become like a hammered cow.
but I didn't foresee this on my 21st birthday.
I think I will go on forever, and nothing can hammer me.
I think I will go on forever, and nothing can hammer me.
Maybe I have been living a dull and relatively smooth life. Without so many storms and erosion, I always feel that I am young, not afraid of anything, and I will continue to thrive.
I also know that life is not so easy, so I am ready to face the truth of life.
and always believe that life is not as good as imagined, but it is not as bad as imagined.
Wang Xiaobo wrote in Silent Majority:
I have very low requirements for myself: I live in this world only to understand some truth and meet some interesting things. If I can do as I wish, my life will be a success.
So, from this perspective, Wang Xiaobo really succeeded.
He is a maverick writer with a poetic world and an interesting soul.
and this is the life state and spiritual world that I am striving for.
Life may rest on the present, but there are poems and distant places I want in the book.
similarly, there are poems and distant places you want.
I need you to get rid of the present and pursue it.