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写在前面的话

亲爱的朱，不知哪一天你才会看到这个，但是没有关系。今天刚考完倒数第二门，剩下下星期一的哲学与电影，最喜欢也最恐惧的一科。下午本来该好好复习的时候，突然想整顿blog。每每心血来潮的时候就新注册一个blog，结果是最后手头抓着一堆blogs，每个都有个美好的开头，但日久就沮丧地发现，原来不过是些花花绿绿的空头支票，而那个开支票的人自己则时时在破产边缘挣扎。虽然本来就没看客，没教人对什么有什么期望，但还是总要叹一声惭愧。Es sama走了之后，把那个叫biology的dedicate了给她，信誓旦旦地说要常常写东西上去，最后却成了发牢骚和发作业的奇怪地方，渐渐两边也都没什么建设性的话了，简直一kittyblogger，够废。才决定把这个叫moviegoer的dedicate给你，就看到你的那篇日记（把我写成了野人的那篇），几个月前的，在此quote一下：

“Right now i have a wonderful idea of what I'd call 'email novel', it's not a novel strictly speaking. I'll kick it off, a paragragh, a line, some descriptive words, a string of nouns, objects, anything. say 'a bird was lying on the ground, no life, no motion. I wonder if it's a carefully sculpted figurine. But finally I noticed it's still breathing, its chest heaving a bit too fast... Maybe death's come to her... ', and i'll send the rubbish over and hu might edit or follow it up in any way she wants. it's anything and everything, so it's not a novel, more like patchwork of our minds. ok, i'll start experimenting soon... haha

What a wonderful idea indeed! How come you never mentioned that to me?! (and how come I switched to English all of a sudden?) Come to think of it we did have some fun, bizarre correspondence in the months of June and July, and somehow the flood turned into a trickle then evaporated into a wisp of nothingness after both of us returned and left our much beloved and now much missed motherland, one after the other. Sighs. What a fateful year 2004 has been. Turbulent, confusing, never ending and now ending all too fast. But back to blogging and your idea of an email novel—I think we might as well turn it into a bloggy, stream-of-consciousness, postmodern kind of fun if you are still on about the idea, thoughts? Now that exams are almost over I am going to try it out anyway, gonna exercise my flabby mind muscles and sunbathe the stagnant backwaters of the brain…Shall end here~~arthritis catching up with my right elbow; there had been all too many cold, damp nights in a row now, so much so I’ve lost count. Awaiting your witticism and wisdom~~