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我写的双语小说《沐于浮华》Bathing In the Limelight他还特意让糖块表面凹凸不平，美其名曰"手工捶打痕迹"——仿佛某个古代匠人曾跪在花岗岩板前，用木槌将糖浆捶打成形，额头上闪烁着属于逝去年代的诚实汗珠。真相，一如真相惯常的模样，远没有这般浪漫：那模具是他从一家也卖塑料桶和假打火机的批发市场花十二块钱买来的，糖从里面压出来时坑坑洼洼，活像一个爱得太深又喝得太久的男人的脸。但真相又有什么关系？真相是一种早已贬值的货币，在这座市场上早已无人问津。He even went out of his way to make the surface of the sugar cubes uneven, christening it "the mark of hand-pounding" — as though some ancient craftsman had knelt before a granite slab and beaten the syrup into submission with a wooden mallet, his brow glistening with the honest sweat of a bygone age. The truth, as truth so often is, was far less romantic: the mold had cost him twelve yuan from a wholesale market stall that also sold plastic buckets and counterfeit lighters, and the candy had emerged from it pitted and bumpy like the face of a man who had loved too hard and drunk too long. But what did the truth matter? Truth was a currency that had long since been devalued in this marketplace.
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