2022暑期精读第6课：陌生人
选择作品：Strangers by Toni Morrison
“美国第一位获得诺贝尔奖的黑人女作家”
“一个陌生女人引发的重重思考”
“媒介时代的人们该如何冲破人与人关系的茧房？”
作者讲述了自己偶遇一位陌生人的奇幻经历，并由此思考了人与他者的关系、人的本质等问题，同时推荐了摄影家罗伯特·柏格森在美国旅行时拍摄的影集A Kind of Rapture。
内容干货
1. 作者简介，本文概要
作者简介：Toni Morrison, American writer noted for her examination of Black experience (particularly Black female experience) within the Black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Notable Works:The Bluest Eye,Song of Solomon,Beloved
作品梗概：Toni Morrison discusses a strange incident she had once with a quirky old fisherwoman, and uses this story to go off into a discussion of how media images shape the way we view other people & even prevent us from really getting to know the strangers we meet.
2. 单词词组，地道表达
鱼钩arc into 溪流，勾起running的catfish, eel和perch。她have a lock on钓鱼技术，总喜欢好几天in a row在钓鱼。
我感到bewildered，感觉她在fib，她一定take advantage of其他人并poach了很多保护动物。但赶走她之后，我的内心又devoid of 趣味和温暖。她的deceit和mendacity让我感到chagrin，但是我们的camaraderie我却无法遗忘。我虽然得到来自好友的admonition，但我仍然无法自拔。她是如此的benign，让人觉得她不会被contaminated。这种印象被深深地embedded在我的脑海里，以致于我相信了她deploy的所有形象，succumbing to the perversions。却不知她用她的artifice，和她的朋友complicit，做了如此的勾当。她在我的眼里是Beneath contempt，她不值得我的reverence和solace。
3. 散文佳句，沉浸赏析
▶ I get nowhere except for the stingy explanation that she had come into my space and had implied promises of female camaraderie, of opportunities for me to be generous, of protection and protecting.
为什么我沉浸在陌生女人消失不见的悲伤和痛苦之中，无法自拔？
▶ Art as well as the market can be complicit in the sequestering of form from formula, of nature from artifice, of humanity from commodity.
艺术和市场相勾结会对艺术、对人造成怎么样的影响？
▶ Why would we want to know a stranger when it is easier to estrange another? Why would we want to close the distance when we can close the gate?
将他人扁平化、贴上标签，虽然降低了认知成本，却也让我们无法真正地去认识一个人。
▶ It is the randomness of the encounter with our already known—although unacknowledged—selves that summons a ripple of alarm.
似乎深植在我们内心深处的潜意识里，我们都是社恐……
▶ One by one by one the photographs unveil us, asserting a beauty, a kind of rapture, that is as close as can be to a master template of the singularity, the community, the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race.
通过摄影、通过艺术我们可以探索到人性之美、生活之喜。
4. 主旨哲思，流连赏玩
▶ 他人所在，地狱之所。
“I get nowhere except for the stingy explanation that she had come into my space (next to it, anyway — at the property line, at the edge, just at the fence, where the most interesting things always happen), and had implied promises of female camaraderie, of opportunities for me to be generous, of protection and protecting. Now she is gone, taking with her my good opinion of myself, which of course is unforgivable.”
“I immediately sentimentalized and appropriated her. I owned her or wanted to...”
我们究竟是如何看待他人？是彼此尊重，还是将他人视作自己的生活这部戏剧中的配角……
▶ 败也媒介，成也媒介。
“Routine media presentations deploy images and language that narrow our view of what humans look like (or ought to look like) and what in fact we are like.”
“…is as close as can be to a master template of the singularity, the community, the unextinguishable sacredness of the human race.”
媒介可以缩窄人们的视野，也可以帮助人们探索更大的世界……
我们行走在世间，究竟是希望可以囿于自己小小的一隅，用自己的认知覆写世界；还是希望凭借自己的努力和探索，能够开阔视野、认识世界、贴近人之本性？
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