激情晨讀英語美文 第二章 從一粒沙看世界:飄忽的浮云

[ti:] [ar:] [al:] [by:]聽力課堂 m.42bites.com [00:05.35]Appetite [00:06.66]By Laurie Lee [00:08.20]One of the major pleasures in life is appetite, [00:11.48]and one of our major duties should be to preserve it. [00:14.54]Appetite is the keenness of living; [00:16.95]it is one of the senses that tells you that [00:19.24]you are still curious to exist, [00:21.21]that you still have an edge on your longings [00:23.40]and want to bite into the world [00:25.14]and taste its multitudinous flavours and juices. [00:28.21]By appetite, of course,I don’t mean just the lust for food, [00:33.24]but any condition of unsatisfied desire, [00:36.08]any burning in the blood that proves you want more than you’ve got, [00:39.58]and that you haven’t yet used up your life. [00:42.10]Wilde said he felt sorry for those [00:44.61]who never got their heart’s desire, [00:46.25]but sorrier still for those who did. [00:48.66]Appetite, to me, is that state of wanting, [00:53.25]which keeps one’s expectations alive. [00:55.33]In wanting a peach, or a whisky, [00:58.06]or a particular texture or sound, [01:00.77]or to be with a particular friend. [01:02.85]For in this condition, of course, [01:04.92]I know that the object of desire is always at its most flawlessly perfect. [01:09.84]Which is why I would carry the preservation of appetite [01:12.80]to the extent of deliberate fasting, [01:14.76]simply because I think that appetite is too good to lose, [01:18.48]too precious to be bludgeoned into insensibility [01:21.65]by satiation and over-doing it. [01:24.28]Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite. [01:29.20]So I think we should arrange to give up our pleasures regularly [01:32.80] — our food, our friends, our lovers — [01:35.54]in order to preserve their intensity, [01:38.05]and the moment of coming back to them. [01:40.13]For this is the moment that [01:42.10]renews and refreshes both oneself and the thing one loves. [01:45.27]Sailors and travellers enjoyed this once, [01:48.22]and so did hunters, I suppose. [01:50.19]Part of the weariness of modern life may be that [01:53.59]we live too much on top of each other, [01:55.33]and are entertained and fed too regularly. [01:58.18]Too much of anything — [02:00.04]too much music, entertainment, happy snacks, [02:03.53]or time spent with one’s friends — [02:05.50]creates a kind of impotence of living [02:08.24]by which one can no longer hear, [02:10.20]or taste, or see, or love, or remember. [02:14.03]Life is short and precious, [02:16.33]and appetite is one of its guardians, [02:18.74]and loss of appetite is a sort of death. [02:21.36]So if we are to enjoy this short life [02:24.97]we should respect the divinity of appetite, [02:27.92]and keep it eager and not too much blunted.

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