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Great Days_Morning

唐纳德·巴塞尔姆
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Morning

-- Say youre frightened. Admit it.

-- In Colorado, by the mountains. In California, by the sea. Everywhere, by breaking glass.

-- Say youre frightened. Confess.

-- Timid as a stag. Theyve got a meter wired to my sheet, I dont know what it measures. I get a dollar a night. When I wake suddenly, I notice its there. I watch my hand aging, sing a little song.

-- Were you invited to the party?

-- Yes, I was. Stood there smiling. I thought, Those are tight pants, how kind of her. Wondered if she was orange underneath. What shall we do? Call up Mowgli? Ask him over? Do you like tongue? Sliced? With mushrooms? Is it a private matter? Is Scriabin as smart as he looks? This mans a fool -- why are you talking to him? Yes, his clothes are interesting, but inside are dull bones. -- This gray light, I dont see how you stand it. -- A firestorm of porn all around -- orange images, dunes and deserts. Bursts of quarreling through the walls. I wonder who the people are? I tried that Cuisine Minceur, didnt like it. Oh, it looks pretty --

-- Say youre frightened.

-- Im frightened. By flutes and flower girls and sirens. We get a lot of sirens because of the hospital. By coffee, dead hanging plants, people who think too fast, vestments and bells.

-- Get some Vitamin E. I take eight hundred units.

-- The sound of glass breaking. I thought, Oh Christ, not again. The last time they got a bicycle, fancy Japanese bicycle somebodyd left in the hall. We changed the lock. Guy left his crowbar. Actually it wasnt a crowbar it was a jack handle.

-- Im not afraid of crime, theres got to be crime, its the manner or mode that -- I mean if they could just take it out of your bank account, by punching a few buttons or something. . .

-- Im not afraid of snakes. There was a snake-handling bunch where we spent the summers. I used to go to their meetings now and again, do a little handling.

-- Not afraid of the mail, not so much as I used to be, all those threatening letters, I just say sticks and stones, sticks and stones, see the triage nurse.

-- Its only when you stop to think about it. I dont stop.

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作品简介：

Donald Barthelme's new book of stories, Great Days, is perhaps most notable for the presence of seven formally related dialogues, The Crisis, The Apology, The New Music, Morning, On the Steps of the Conservatory, The Leap, and Great Days, which introduce a new aspect of his work. In these restless, possibility-haunted colloquies, stripped of everything save voices, changing pairs of women and pairs of men range an emotional terrain whose poles are hope and memory. Extravagant, profane, and comic, the dialogues are a considerable achievement, testing the possibilities of form and extending our engagement with the world.

In other stories Barthelme explores the tragic, ambiguous relationship between Cortés and Montezuma, uncovers units of the Swedish army on maneuvers in Manhattan, offers a country-music version of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, describes a heroic cutting contest between a king of jazz and a young challenger, and provides an account of a group of zombies out on a wife-buying expedition.

As Philip Stevick wrote in The Nation, Donald Barthelme's stories stand as touchstones for narrative art of the last two decades. Great Days is an important addition to an already impressive body of work.

作者:唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

标签:Great Days唐纳德·巴塞尔姆

《Great Days》最热门章节：
1、Great Days2、The Leap3、On the Steps of the Conservatory4、Morning5、The Zombies6、Concerning the Bodyguard7、The Death of Edward Lear8、The Abduction from the Seraglio9、Tales of the Swedish Army10、Belief
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