The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings （1）

这两天在读the picture of dorian gray。其实这本书在枕边放了一年了，那时候jing还说要开个reader's club，做成沙龙的形式，让我们每周的四人帮聚会变得更有意义些（结果一年下来，我们还是一个纯吃团！）。oscar wilde这个老说一些让人厥倒的话的男人实在太有才华，也许是他的取向，让他比男人敏感比女人潇洒，于是文字中弥漫着谐趣的无奈。读他的文字，是的，是文字本身，就是件浪漫的事，有时候甚至会忘记情节，因为某几个词怦然心动。比如说dorian gray和lord henry的一见钟情，今天读到时正好在火车上，轰隆轰隆，阳光斜斜的被厚玻璃反射回空气，灰尘凝固成各种形状，绕啊绕在依次飞逝的成排林木间，突然像小时候偷看文艺小说或少女漫画的那种心情。某人短信说跟新交一个月的女朋友分手了，可是一点不难过反而很欢快的吃了很多晚饭，我说，我们都老了。真的，这种一见钟情、怦然心动、惴惴不安对于我们这些老年人，也只能在书里回味回味。

此情可待成追忆，只是当时已惘然。（妈呀！朕怎么也吟诗了！好恐怖！！）

以下是今天看到的特别想摘选下来的话。

1. nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
想起纵情声色这个词。

2. you know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
我们总是差那么一点点。

3. you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having.
美韶华去之何迅，尽于白头。

4. peope say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is shallow only people who do not judge by appearances. (D大R你应该会超喜欢这句吧！) The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
有没有觉得跟第一句的sense & soul是异曲同工。

5. the lad started and drew back. He was bareheaded, and the leaves had tossed his rebellious curls and tangled all their gilded threads. There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened. His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.

his romantic olive-colored face and worn expression interested him. There was something in his low, languid voice that was absolutely fascinating. His cool, white, flowerlike hands, even, had a curious charm. They moved, as he spoke, like music, and seemed to have a language of their own.

but he felt afraid of him, and ashamed of being afraid.

some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
以上都是对外貌的传神描述，或许可以考虑转化在托福口语Q1 person题中哦，不过什么都要适度，别把考官雷到了：）