历年诺贝尔文学奖书名 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第8章Part 7

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第8章Part 7  

Paul D moaned
surprised to find himself exactly where he was the last time he looked.
"Don't tell me I slept in this chair the whole night."
Sethe laughed. "Me? I won't say a word to you."
"Why didn't you rouse me?"
"I did. Called you o or three times. I gave it up around midnight and then I thought you went outsomewhere."
He stood
expecting his back to fight it. But it didn't. Not a creak or a stiff joint anywhere. In facthe felt refreshed. Some things are like that
he thought
good-sleep places. The base of certain treeshere and there; a wharf
a bench
a rowboat once
a haystack usually
not always bed
and here
now
a rocking chair
which was strange because in his experience furniture was the worst placefor a good-sleep sleep.
The next evening he did it again and then again. He was accustomed to sex with Sethe just aboutevery day
and to avoid the confusion Beloved's shining caused him he still made it his business totake her back upstairs in the morning
or lie down with her after supper. But he found a way and areason to spend the longest part of the night in the rocker. He told himself it must be his back —something supportive it needed for a weakness left over from sleeping in a box in Geia.