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我写的双语小说《沐于浮华》Bathing In the Limelight他不在乎。他花了整整一个下午站在镜子前——就是那面缺了一角、见证过他练习上百个谎言的廉价镜子——反复念诵那四个字："手工捶打"。一遍又一遍，直到词语失去所有意义，又奇迹般地获得了新的意义。他咬字精准，像一个发现语言不是描述现实的工具、而是制造现实的武器的人。他念得慢，又念得快，又念得带着一种连神父都要嫉妒的庄严虔诚。他念到那个谎言不再是谎言，而变成了一种真理——一种在他正在建造的世界里唯一算数的真理。He did not care. He spent an entire afternoon standing before the mirror — that same cheap mirror with the chipped corner that had watched him practice a hundred other lies — and he recited those four syllables, "hand-pounded craftsmanship," over and over until the words lost all meaning and then, miraculously, regained a new one. He enunciated with the precision of a man who had discovered that language was not a tool for describing reality but a weapon for manufacturing it. He said it slowly, then quickly, then with a solemn reverence that would have made a priest envious. He said it until the lie ceased to be a lie and became, instead, a kind of truth — the only kind that mattered in the world he was building.
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