历年诺贝尔文学奖书名 诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第3章Part 9

诺贝尔文学经典:《宠儿》第3章Part 9  

"I asked you who brought you here?"
"I walked here
" she said. "A long
long
long
long way. Nobody bring me. Nobody help me."
"You had new shoes. If you walked so long why don't your shoes show it?"
"Paul D
stop picking on her."
"I want to know
" he said
holding the knife handle in his fist like a pole.
"I take the shoes! I take the dress! The shoe strings don't fix!" she shouted and gave him a look somalevolent Denver touched her arm.
"I'll teach you
" said Denver
"how to tie your shoes
" and got a smile from Beloved as a reward.
Paul D had the feeling a large
silver fish had slipped from his hands the minute he grabbed hold of its tail. That it was streaming back off into dark water now
gone but for the glistening marking itsroute. But if her shining was not for him
who then? He had never known a woman who lit up fornobody in particular
who just did it as a general announcement. Always
in his experience
thelight appeared when there was focus. Like the ThirtyMile Woman
dulled to smoke while hewaited with her in the ditch
and starlight when Sixo got there. He never knew himself to mistakeit. It was there the instant he looked at Sethe's wet legs
otherwise he never would have been boldenough to enclose her in his arms that day and whisper into her back.
This girl Beloved
homeless and without people
beat all
though he couldn't say exactly why
considering the coloredpeople he had run into during the last enty years. During
before andafter the War he had seen Negroes so stunned
or hungry
or tired or bereft it was a wonder theyrecalled or said anything. Who
like him
had hidden in caves and fought owls for food; who
likehim
stole from pigs; who
like him
slept in trees in the day and walked by night; who
like him
had buried themselves in slop and jumped in wells to avoid regulators
raiders
paterollers
veterans
hill men
posses and merrymakers. Once he met a Negro about fourteen years old wholived by himself in the woods and said he couldn't remember living anywhere else. He saw awitless coloredwoman jailed and hanged for stealing ducks she believed were her own babies.