历年诺贝尔文学奖书名 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第3章Part 16

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第3章Part 16  

"Yeah." Paul D smiled with her. "Must have been five of them perched up there
and at least fiftyhens."

"Mister
too?"
"Not right off. But I hadn't took enty steps before I seen him. He e down off the fence postthere and sat on the tub."
"He loved that tub
" said Sethe
thinking
No
there is no stopping now.
"Didn't he? Like a throne. Was me took him out the shell
you know. He'd a died if it hadn't beenfor me. The hen had walked on off with all the hatched peeps trailing behind her. There was thisone egg left. Looked like a blank
but then I saw it move so I tapped it open and here e Mister
bad feet and all. I watched that son a bitch grow up and whup everything in the yard."
"He always was hateful
" Sethe said.
"Yeah
he was hateful all right. Bloody too
and evil. Crooked feet flapping. Comb as big as myhand and some kind of red. He sat right there on the tub looking at me. I swear he smiled. My headwas full of what I'd seen of Halle a while back. I wasn't even thinking about the bit. Just Halle andbefore him Sixo
but when I saw Mister I knew it was me too. Not just them
me too. One crazy
one sold
one missing
one burnt and me licking iron with my hands crossed behind me. The last ofthe Sweet Home men.
"Mister
he looked so... free. Better than me. Stronger
tougher. Son a bitch couldn't even get outthe shell by hisself but he was still king and I was..." Paul D stopped and squeezed his left handwith his right. He held it that way long enough for it and the world to quiet down and let him goon.
"Mister was allowed to be and stay what he was. But I wasn't allowed to be and stay what I was. Even if you cooked him you'd be cooking a rooster named Mister. But wasn't no way I'd ever bePaul D again
living or dead. Schoolteacher changed me. I was something else and that somethingwas less than a chicken sitting in the sun on a tub."
Sethe put her hand on his knee and rubbed.