时间,犹如莎士比亚《冬天的故事》中的合唱,对有些人来说妙若天籁,而我们则视其为磨难。这是众口一声的想法,因为大多数作家,无论古今,皆把时间看作磨难。时间或许会给我们带来救赎,但很难说是快乐之源。“冬天的故事”这一副题,写在莫琳·霍华德这本机智敏锐、读过难以忘怀的新小说的起首,它表示了一种叙事上的省略,这一时间超出了故事的结尾:我转动着眼镜让景像慢慢长大就象你躺在中间《情人历书》讲述了形形色色的情人,被遗忘的和被发现的,年轻的和年长的,一生中三个月的故事,而主角是两个三十岁光景的恋人:纽约画家露伊丝·茉菲特和四处漂流,没有正式职业的电脑奇才阿逖·弗里曼。时间是2000年的一月、二月和三月。霍华德保留着其它月份,也许还有其它的年份,可以肯定 The time, like the chorus in Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale,” sounds wonderful to some, and we see it as a tribulation. This is a popular opinion because most writers, both ancient and modern, view time as a tribulation. Time may bring redemption, but hard to say is the source of happiness. “The Story of Winter ” This first title, written in the witty, read the unforgettable new novel Maureen Howard, it shows a narrative omission, this time beyond the story End: I turn my glasses so that the scene grows slowly as you lay in the middle of “Valentine’s Almanac” tells all kinds of lovers, forgotten and discovered, young and older, three months of life Story, while the protagonists are two 30-year-old lovers: New York painter Luis? MSFT and drift around, there is no formal occupation computer wizard 阿 逖 Freeman. Time is January, February and March 2000. Howard kept other months, maybe there are other years, to be sure