在我生长的外省小城,人们普遍不喜欢奢谈日常生活之外的无用之物,认为有出息的孩子理应学好数理化,然后赚钱,当官,过好日子。至于数理化和赚钱之间有何必然关系,则在讨论之外。考虑到少年时代鄙人的数理化也相当了得,所以我最终选择成为一个文学从业者,乃是异于常人之举。用西方的说法,我是我们家族里的那只黑羊。如此选择的根本原因当然在于,文学所带给我的快乐远非寻常事情可比。高中是我大量阅读长篇小说的时期,我至今仍记得那些伟大作品所带给我的快感,那是一种与生命深部呼吸振 In the small cities and towns where I grew up, people generally do not like to talk about the useless things outside their daily life. They think that promising children should learn mathematics well and make money. As for the mathematical relationship between money and the inevitable, then outside the discussion. Taking into account the teenage physique is also quite amazing, so I eventually chose to become a literary practitioners, but different from the ordinary move. In the West, I’m the black sheep in our family. The fundamental reason for such a choice is of course the fact that the happiness that literature brings to me is far from extraordinary. High school is a time when I read a lot of novels, and I still remember the pleasures that those great works bring to me. It was a deep breathing