读大学时,班里有一个男生,着装不拘小节,喜读古书谈玄学,言语间充满赤子之心。他做着每个学生该做的事情,那年,他和我们一起投身到了考研大军当中。可是,就在考试前一个月,他失踪了。元旦回家探亲之后,从老家回北京的火车不知将他载到了哪里。我们震惊,恐惧,不解,甚至幻想,考研当天,他会忽然出现,宣布和我们开了个玩笑。当然这一切确实是幻想。一年后,我开始了研究生的生活。偶然一天,我在图书馆翻到了毛姆的《月亮和六便士》——一个落跑男人的故事(姑且容许我如此概括)。仿佛人生中的某些约定俗成的观念被猛烈 When I was in college, there was a boy in the class who was dressed informally and read an ancient book about metaphysics. His words were filled with innocence. He is doing what every student should do, and that year, he joined us in the ranks of the Kaoyan. However, just a month before the exam, he disappeared. After returning to visit relatives on New Year’s Day, the train from his hometown back to Beijing did not know where he was carried. We were shocked, frightened, puzzled, and even fantasized. On the day of his exam, he suddenly appeared and announced a joke with us. Of course, all this is really fantasy. A year later, I started a graduate student’s life. Occasionally, I turned to Maugham’s “Moon and Sixpence” in the library - a story of a man who ran away (let me, to summarize this). As if some of the common concepts in life are violent