莫言什么时候获得诺贝尔文学 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第12章Part 2

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第12章Part 2  

AT THE BACK of Baby Suggs' mind may have been the thought that if Halle made it
God dowhat He would
it would be a cause for celebration. If only this final son could do for himself whathe had done for her and for the three children John and Ella delivered to her door one summernight. When the children arrived and no Sethe
she was afraid and grateful. Grateful that the part ofthe family that survived was her own grandchildren — the first and only she would know: oboys and a little girl who was crawling already.
But she held her heart still
afraid to formquestions: What about Sethe and Halle; why the delay? Why didn't Sethe get on board too?
Nobody could make it alone. Not only because trappers picked them off like buzzards or tedthem like rabbits
but also because you couldn't run if you didn't know how to go. You could belost forever
if there wasn't nobody to show you the way.
So when Sethe arrived — all mashed up and split open
but with another grandchild in her arms —the idea of a whoop moved closer to the front of her brain. But since there was still no sign ofHalle and Sethe herself didn't know what had happened to him
she let the whoop lie-not wishingto hurt his chances by thanking God too soon.
It was Stamp Paid who started it. Twenty days after Sethe got to 124 he came by and looked at the baby he had tied up in his nephew's jacket
looked at the mother he had handed a piece of fried eelto and
for some private reason of his own
went off with o buckets to a place near the river'sedge that only he knew about where blackberries grew
tasting so good and happy that to eat themwas like being in church. Just one of the berries and you felt anointed. He walked six miles to theriverbank; did a slide-run-slide down into a ravine made almost inaccessible by brush. He reachedthrough brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleevesand trousers. All the while suffering mosquitoes
bees
hors
wasps and the meanest lady spidersin the state. Scratched
raked and bitten
he maneuvered through and took hold of each berry withfingertips so gentle not a single one was bruised. Late in the afternoon he got back to 124 and puto full buckets down on the porch. When Baby Suggs saw his shredded clothes
bleeding hands
welted face and neck she sat down laughing out loud.