 文 | 凯岚 庞德的女儿玛丽在她的回忆录《慎重: 庞德——父亲和师长》中有很大篇幅描述庞德对她的教育和引导，展现了庞德作为一个慈祥和耐心（又不乏幽默）的父亲鲜为人知的一面。庞德一直鼓励玛丽写作，下面是庞德在玛丽15岁时写给她的一封信。 1940年11月17日 你好，卡拉！ 学习写作，就像你学习网球一样。你不能总当成是玩游戏，一定要练习击球。 想想看：如果去利多（Lido）打网球会有什么不同吗?我的意思是，这和以前去锡耶纳（Siena）的不同之处在哪里?把它写下来。不是编一个故事，而是把事情讲清楚。 故事的篇幅应该会很长。当一个人刚开始写作时，连一页都很难填满；但当他（她）逐渐长大，长篇大论起来根本“刹不住车”。 想想看：威尼斯的房子与别的房子不一样，威尼斯和别的城市不同。假设你要告诉“奇巧巧克力”（Kit Kat）甚至是一个美国人怎么找到威尼斯的房子，怎么认出你和我出了门去利多，他下火车后怎么能找到奎尼街252号？ 描述一下我们或描述路易吉诺（Luigino）到达火车站的场景?他有钱吗?我们有钱吗?我们又是怎么去的？ 小说家可以用整整一章来描述主人公是怎么从火车站走到门口，好的写作可以做到一目了然。更有甚者，“奇巧巧克力”可以用这一章的描述找到房子。 再见！ 在你把这些写出来之前，好好想想吧。 17 Nov. 1940 CIAO CARA To learn to write, as when you learn tennis. Can't always play a game, must practice strokes. Think; how was it different to go to the Lido to play tennis? I mean different from when one went to play in Siena?? Write that. Not to make a story but to make it clear. It will be very LONG. When one starts to write it is hard to fill a page. When one is older there is always so MUCH to write. THINK: the house in Venice is not like ANY OTHER house. Venice like no other city. Suppose Kit Kat or even an American needed to be told How to find the Venice house? How to recognize you and me going out of the door to go to the Lido. He gets off train, how does he find 252 Calle Q.? Describe us or describe Luigino ariving at ferrovia? has he money, have we, how do we go? A novelist could make a whole chapter getting protagonista from train to front door. Good writing would make it possible and even certain that Kit Kat could use the chapter to find the house. ciao. THINK about this quite a good deal before you try to write it out. |
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