Water for Elephants
Water for Elephants内容简介
Though he may not speak of them, the memories still dwell inside Jacob Jankowski's ninety-something-year-old mind. Memories of himself as a young man, tossed by fate onto a rickety train that was home to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. Memories of a world filled with freaks and clowns, with wonder and pain and anger and passion; a world with its own narrow, irrational rules, its own way of life, and its own way of death. The world of the circus: to Jacob it was both salvation and a living hell. Jacob was there because his luck had run out—orphaned and penniless, he had no direction until he landed on this locomotive "ship of fools." It was the early part of the Great Depression, and everyone in this third-rate circus was lucky to have any job at all. Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, was there because she fell in love with the wrong man, a handsome circus boss with a wide mean streak. And Rosie the elephant was there because she was the great gray hope, the new act that was going t
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年龄是可怕的小偷，一等你开始懂得怎么生活，便从下面搞垮你的腿，压驼你的腰，让你这里酸那里痛，脑筋转不动，还悄悄让你的另一半癌细胞扩散到全身。
我凝聚这具破烂躯壳内的所有感情，努力维持怒意，但徒劳无功。怒火渐渐消退，仿佛浪潮离开海岸。我思忖着这可悲的事实，却突然意识到黑幽幽的睡意正在我头上盘旋。睡意已经盯上我一段时间了，等在那里，每盘旋一圈就离我近一点。此时我的怒气只剩一个空壳子，我放弃了，在心底跟自己说明天早上起床记得继续生气，然后便放任意识漂流。我根本无法控制思绪了。
年龄是可怕的小偷，一等你开始懂得怎么生活，便从下面搞垮你的腿，压驼你的背，让你这里酸那里痛，脑筋转不动，还悄悄让你的另一半癌细胞扩散到全身。
当你五岁的时候，自己几岁零几个月都了然于心。即使念过二十，你也把岁数记得一清二楚。你会说我二十三岁，二十七岁。可是到了三十来岁，怪事就发生了。一开始不过是一时的语塞，片刻的迟疑。“你几岁？”“噢，我——”你信心满满脱口而出，又蓦然噤声。你本来要说三十三岁，但你不是三十三，而是三十五。你心烦起来，纳闷后半生是否已然开始。答案当然是肯定的，但你要几十年后才会承认。
尽管有时候我愿意不计代价让她回到我身边，但我庆幸先走的人是她。失去她，我仿佛一个人被劈成两半，刹那间天崩地灭，我不要她吃那种苦。独留人世实在糟透了。
我咽下口水，点点头。
“我也说不上来。”老骆说，指头伸进耳朵掏，又细瞧抠出来的东西。“好像在苦窑蹲过一阵子，可是我不清楚原因。依我说，你最好也别问他。”他手指在裤子抹两下，悠悠晃到门口。
这种事情啊，瞒久了秘密本身便无关紧要，要紧的是你一直隐匿未说。
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