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Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

I wanna write something like this!!

I wanna write something like this!!

Water may be older than light, diamonds crack in hot goat's blood, mountaintops give off cold fire, forests appear in mid-ocean, it may happen that a crab is caught with the shadow of a hand on its back, and that the wind be imprisoned in a bit of knotted string. And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

BBC的World Book Club前不久采访了Annie Proulx，其间讨论了两本书，就是这本《航运新闻》，还有《断背山》。可惜douban现在好象不能共享音频和视频吧？ 对书有兴趣的人可以到这个地址去订阅podcast： http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/directory/。  

故事的一个角色引述他过世老爸地话说: 一个男人一生中会经历四个女人：草地上的少女，恶魔爱人，坚强的女人，安静的高个儿女人。（the Maid in the Meadow, the Demon Lover, the Stouthearted Woman and the Tall and Quiet Woman.）。引述的人没有解释这是什么意思。 Quoyl...  

《船讯》作者安妮·普鲁的另一部作品《断背山》相信很多人都已经熟悉了，而这本书首先吸引我的是简洁的封面，它让我想起那个非常善于使用景色对比来表达感情的希腊电影大师；另外一点就是它获得了1994年的普利策奖。大概翻看了一下，基调就是阴天的海边、霏雨、腐烂的木头...  

THERE is a time I read the book every day in subway on my way to work and home. I was deeply shocked by the miseries Quoyle had at the beginning of this story, which reminds me of my life. I suppose we all have a time in school learning what we don't unders...

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