Elegy and hip line

Myrtle 2022-03-25 08:01:01

This is my first winter in this house. The balcony is huge, and four tables of mahjong can be placed. My daily pleasure is to move a spider plant to the middle of the balcony in the early morning, while watering it while watching dozens of pigeons from the adjacent top-floor residents hovering between the buildings, and then move the spider plant back to the house at night. Most of the time I was at the desk, trying to adjust my sitting position to soothe the bone hyperplasia in my cervical spine, while quickly flipping through various web pages. On the side is a book: about heroes, about history, about social myths. I can't watch it.

A few months ago, in this house, Cancer asked me with a smile, which of the women you have dated is the most attractive to you. Cancer asked very meaningful. I vaguely know the subtext behind this. However, you know that in such a space, with two people and four eyes, your answer is wrong, not answering is wrong, thinking about it for a second is wrong, and replying concisely is still wrong. Similar questions, I have also encountered, Aries asked me before, what is your favorite food. I answer, instant noodles. Aries asked again, what do you like the most. I continue to answer, instant noodles. This doesn't simply evolve from that old "advice" joke. I hate that women with different faces ask me similar questions, I hate it extremely. This kind of perfunctory answer, for them, is either the joy of getting the answer, or the deep confusion, or the faint tingling. To answer such a question, for me, it is easier for me to give a concrete and referential answer than to tell others all your loves and hates. I don't understand each other's love and hate, I just hope that the other party can clarify it for you with words that can be screened out. Getting along like that always makes me tired. Later, Aries left. I don't know how she felt about my perfunctory attitude after so many years, and whether she understands it now. When she asked this question, the relationship between us was over.

When Penelope Cruz annoyed at Ben Kingsley's stalking and distrust, she asked Kingsley: What do I mean to you? Such passages easily bring me back to the above scenario. Embarrassed, evasive, disguised, and even annoyed, Kingsley could only dodge Penelope's eyes and took a sip from his glass. When Cancer asked me for the first time, who was the most impressive to you, I remembered that I still put my hand on my forehead in a serious way, pondered for a while, and then sighed and replied: That Scorpio. When Cancer asked me such a nonsense question for the second time, I responded quickly with a corresponding answer: Scorpio.

In the texts I've written, I've always mentioned Scorpio vaguely and over and over again as I reminisce about that unfortunate time in the fall of 2006. Whether it's my appearance as a betrayed and deceived person, or the coexistence of sullen, quiet and condescending faces, I have never shied away from the actions I made to please Scorpio, and I feel regretful when I think about it. Penelope is known as having the most beautiful hip line in Spain. I have no intention to compare Scorpio with Penelope. When answering Cancer's questioning, although I had provocative intentions and praised Scorpio's figure, in all fairness, Scorpio is indeed the most feminine among the women I get along with. . I know how this kind of question and answer hurts Cancer. Compared with the sweetness of love, most women with water elements remember more than your good but your hurt. The morbid pleasure of being hurt by her lover's words made her realize that it was time to walk away and find the next person who could hurt her. It's like two boats meet, one slogans a semaphore, the other responds accordingly, and then each sails away, leaving a long trail of foam trailing behind. I understand the signal sent by Cancer, I am very cooperative, and I will be the villain first.

Ben Kingsley's self-indulgent prudence to escape from marriage was, in the eyes of his son, irresponsible and irrefutable. Even his son, the doctor in the oncology department, sought out Kingsley because of his marriage cheating. Kingsley understood that everyone's problems always had to be solved by themselves, and he couldn't give any help. What's more, he can't even handle his own problems. In Penelope's view, Kingsley has spent her life avoiding all kinds of relationships in order to seek simple freedom, so she can't help but ask Kingsley about the future of the two.

I always have an apology for the women who have committed themselves to me. Maybe I'll be more forgiving, and I should hold back pressure and provocation to answer these questions I hate. But my meager self-esteem has always encouraged me to say, if even such discord is unavoidable, how can I hope for the next few decades? It's just that every time I walk from the first floor to the sixth floor desolately and watch the stairs lights turn on one by one under the sound of my footsteps, I also think about the once thin figure of Cancer. I was so obsessed with the fragrance that the two of us got together, that I was arrogant that this was enough to ward off any problems. As a result, the details that many other parties thought were true and that I thought were false, under my neglect, gradually became confused and became a ball of yarn that could no longer be wound around.

"Beautiful women suddenly appear before us, always striking, and passing away, but we never really see through her. We only see the body, and we are blinded by beauty." Kingsley and the poet George used sixty Years of experience are summarized. "You know, no matter how beautiful your breasts are, decades later, they're just a pair of sacks of milk hanging down to your belly button." My roommate who had just had a wedding last Saturday taught me this from my experience in 2000.


After all these years, in their eyes, I still know nothing about love. Sadly, their judgment is as accurate as a hole in the fire.

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Extended Reading
  • Quinn 2022-04-03 09:01:11

    A very literary film. And it's the kind of movie that has a strong American literary character. But I just can't stand kingsley's big bald head superimposed on the big beauty's head. . .

  • Carson 2022-04-01 09:01:18

    Beauty, it's better to just look at it

Elegy quotes

  • Consuela Castillo: Beautiful picture.

    David Kepesh: Beautiful woman.

  • David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.

    Charlie Rose: No?

    David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.

    Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...

    David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.

    Charlie Rose: There was booze...

    David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...

    Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?

    David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.

    Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.

    David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.

    Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?

    David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over

    Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.

    David Kepesh: Well...

    Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?

    David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.

    Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.

    David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.

    Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.

    David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.

    Charlie Rose: Or... get married.

    David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.

    Charlie Rose: Any regrets?

    David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.

    [laughter]

    David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.