与一位朋友谈起铁凝时,她说过的两个字给我留下了深刻的印象:质朴。“质朴”二字是随口带出的,并没有进一步的解释和评说,也许她还说了别的,却唯有这两个字长久地存进了我的记忆里。记忆这东西是很怪的,当时认为重要的,也许往往不能收容;认为不重要的,它反而格外地要保存下来。一旦保存下来成为了记忆,你或许才发现,那不重要的恰恰才是最重要的。因此,我一向看重记忆里的东西,尽管它可能已变得不那么客观,但由于它在内心占据了位置而不得不使你对它生出尊敬来,一种对你认为的真实的尊敬。由于与铁凝住在一个城市,又同在一个单位,见面的机会就多了些,有时是她作为领导时的见面,比 When I talked with a friend about Tiening, the two words she said left a deep impression on me: simple. The word “rustic” is taken out of context without any further explanation or comment. Maybe she said something else, but only these two words have long been in my memory. It is weird to remember this thing, which was considered important at the time, and often can not be accommodated; it is rather insignificant, but rather to be preserved. Once saved into memory, you may find that it is not important is precisely the most important. So I always value things in my memory, and though it may have become less objective, it has to give you respect for it, a real respect for what you think, because it occupies a place inside. Due to live in a city with iron coagulation, but also in the same unit to meet some more chances, and sometimes she met as a leader, than