莫言什么时候获得诺贝尔文学 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第15章Part1

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第15章Part1  

It made him dizzy. At first he thought it was her spinning. Circling him the way she was circlingthe subject. Round and round
never changing direction
which might have helped his head. Thenhe thought
No
it's the sound of her voice; it's too near. Each turn she made was at least threeyards from where he sat
but listening to her was like having a child whisper into your ear so closeyou could feel its lips form the words you couldn't make out because they were too close. Hecaught only pieces of what she said — which was fine
because she hadn't gotten to the main part— the answer to the question he had not asked outright
but which lay in the clipping he showedher. And lay in the smile as well. Because he smiled too
when he showed it to her
so when she burst out laughing at the joke — the mix-up of her face put where some other coloredwoman'sought to be — well
he'd be ready to laugh right along with her. "Can you beat it?" he would ask. And "Stamp done lost his mind
" she would giggle."Plumb lost it."
But his smile never got a chance to grow. It hung there
small and alone
while she examined theclipping and then handed it back.
Perhaps it was the smile
or maybe the ever-ready love she saw in his eyes — easy and upfront
theway colts
evangelists and children look at you: with love you don't have to deserve — that madeher go ahead and tell him what she had not told Baby Suggs
the only person she felt obliged toexplain anything to. Otherwise she would have said what the newspaper said she said and no e could recognize only seventy-five printed words (half of which appeared in the newspaperclipping)
but she knew that the words she did not understand hadn't any more power than she hadto explain. It was the smile and the upfront love that made her try.
"I don't have to tell you about Sweet Home — what it was — but maybe you don't know what ias like for me to get away from there."Covering the lower half of her face with her palms
she paused to consider again the size of themiracle; its flavor.