如果把精神病学意义上的孤独排除在外的话,世上至少还有两种孤独。第一种是庸常的、痛苦的孤独,是一种人类不得已而身处其中的生存处境,也是一种人们总想逃脱,却总不能达成的心理感受。第二种是自觉的、崇高的孤独,是文化人或曰知识分子千方百计所追求的一种理想境界,一种高蹈自在的精神状态。我阅读钱锺书先生的著作,想见他的为人,以为可以用第二种“孤独的境界”来理解他。 If you exclude the loneliness in psychiatry, there are at least two loneliness in the world. The first is trivial and painful loneliness. It is a kind of living condition in which mankind lasts for a while and is also a kind of psychological feeling that people always want to escape but never achieve. The second is conscious and lofty loneliness, which is an ideal state pursued by cultural people or intellectuals in every way possible, a kind of high-spirited mental state. I read the writings of Mr. Qian and I want to see him as someone who can understand him with a second “solitary realm.”