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没错儿,陶沙子当然是穿着那件大地牌风衣,高一脚低一脚,一步一阶登上新华书店二楼的。这是晚秋时节里某个周二的午后,是陶沙子光顾书店的一个固定时间。早在八年以前,从汉梁师范学校毕业进入汉梁肉联厂工会的陶沙子就为自己这样规定,每个周二和周六的午后——别人睡午党的时候,我陶沙子均要到新华书店走一趟,至少要逗留半个小时以上。多年以来,肩挎一个发白的军用书包,吹着口哨,思考着问题,通过铁道闸口,穿越灰尘飞扬的煤场——到位于道南广场的汉梁新华书店去,每周两次,风雨无阻,这已经成为陶沙于的精神生活的一个象征,或日常生活的一种习惯,从形式上看,这与女人的爱逛商场有些相似,买不买的倒在其次,但逛是一定要逛的。在这个落木萧萧的午后,陶沙于一如既往地走进书店的时候,他显然没料到这里会有一个小兄弟正等待着他的救渡。事后他想,像这种事情我陶沙子不去问,还会有谁来问呢;没有人了。他说。Fly By Night
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye was born at a time sacred to Goodman Palpitattle, He Who Keeps Flies out of Jams and Butterchurns, which is why her father insisted on naming her after the housefly. He also insisted on teaching her to read—even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye died, leaving behind an orphaned daughter with an inauspicious name and an all-consuming hunger for words. Trapped for years in the care of her cruel Uncle Westerly and Aunt Briony, Mosca leaps at the opportunity for escape, though it comes in the form of sneaky swindler Eponymous Clent. As she travels the land with Clent and her pet goose, Saracen, Mosca begins to discover complicated truths about the world she inhabits and the power of words.