The easy pregnancy of your mother heralded a happy resolution, she brought you into the world without pain, and I was overjoyed, seeing her good health did not falter after giving birth to you. But you must know, dearest son, that barely did I feel this joy, barely had I covered your tender infant face with my first father’s kisses when severe illness struck your mother, and then her death turned the sweet feelings of my heart into bitter grief. I sent urgent prayers to God about saving her life, summoned expert doctors to bring back her health, but the first doctor inhumanely refused to help, despite my repeated requests, and then the illness worsened, others applied all their efforts, all the knowledge of their art, but could not help her. My groans and sobbing almost took me to the grave as well.
I thought I had friends who loved me, respected me and shared my pleasures, but when my wife’s death put me in an almost desperate state I found few people to comfort me and share my sorrow. I experienced cruelty. When her body was taken to be buried, few of those I called themselves my friends displayed any sensitivity to the sad event or performed the Christian duty of accompanying her coffin.
My taste and passion for rare things was a form of vanity, like my desire to charm and surprise people’s feelings with things they had never seen or heard … I came to realize that the brilliance of such work could only satisfy for a short time and vanished instantly in the eyes of my contemporaries. It did not leave the remotest impression on the soul. What is all this splendor for?
Dracula 发表于 2017-10-3 20:273 R3 m9 j- `& `- N
这是当时发在酒庄下的对原文的一个补充。
书里关于苏联时期的那章有很多细节很有意思,下面摘抄几个。
Dracula 发表于 2017-10-3 20:27
这是当时发在酒庄下的对原文的一个补充。
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书里关于苏联时期的那章有很多细节很有意思,下面摘抄几个。
dashanji 发表于 2017-10-7 06:59
那么有钱有势也活得不自在,人生不如意事十之八九
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