管锌抬手指了一本,既不是顾城也不是郑愁予,是walt whitman的《leaves of grass》(沃尔特·惠特曼的《草叶集》 ,全诗主要讴歌自由和民主,倡导人类平等,赞美人生,靖岳买的这一本是后期出版的,载录了四百多首,事实上他从未读完过。
靖岳身子没太动,只伸长右臂去够。
管锌摸靖岳的脸,顺势滑下躺到靖岳腿上,侧身,面朝外。
“once upon a midnight dreary, while i pondered, weak and weary,over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,while i nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.”
“as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door—‘tis some visitor,’ i muttered, ‘tapping at my chamber door—only this and nothing more.’”
和在课堂上出了名的严厉相反,给管锌念诗的时候和风细雨的。管锌反过身来,面对着靖岳的腹部,闻他身上的t恤的味道,双手松松紧紧地抱。他知道《leaves of grass》还在书架上,也知道靖岳念的是edgar allan poe的《the raven》(埃德加·爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》)。
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then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"wretch," i cried, "thy god hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee,respite—respite andnepenthe, from thy memories of lenore; quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost lenore!"