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In 1970s, Li Zawen, a lecturer at Teachers College, got lost in the maze of archives in order to write an associate doctoral thesis and collect information from the National Archives. He broke into a room full of sundries and found a small box by accident. It is full of colorful candy paper with words written with different pens and different colors of ink. Some are neatly written, some are scrawled, and the content is varied. Some are like unfinished creative outlines, such as About Language or the Beginning of the New Century, Paradise Lost or God's Trick, some are like horticultural observation records, and some are philosophical reflections on various phenomena under the general heading (such as Time), all written by a man named Milasevic.

Li Zawen spent a lot of time and energy sorting out these candy wrappers, but with little effect. One day, he rescued a homeless woman, Zoya, at the railway station and let her stay with a distant relative, but she was misunderstood by others. Soon, Zoya suddenly disappeared without leaving a note. Lisa Wen lost her mind, and in order not to think about her, he resumed the hard work of deciphering candy paper. He gradually became disappointed in real life. A woman named Liu Xia often comes to see him. Lizawin decided to marry her, but I don't know if there is true love between him and Liu Xia.

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Two fate line, or Milasevic's small box.

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Simon Kondratiev, as you put it brilliantly in one place: We writers should not be ashamed of those coincidences that make people feel as if they are secretly arranged and excessively meaningful. We will immediately defend ourselves. Such coincidences are actually everywhere in our lives. Besides, we don't pay attention to everything. They mean nothing to us. But the ideas and intentions in literary works are obvious. However, we should know that when we turn our thoughts to what we have experienced, we can find some patterns in the complexity of fate, as if everything is decorated in a vibrant and lifeless nature, which forces us to think: Are some concepts about meaning and beauty that we have accepted since ancient times consistent with each other? Whether this model really exists is another question. Someone replied, "For everyone." Perhaps the reward of this coincidence is that we can catch the voice calling to you in the noise of the world, even you don't understand it. What's going on here? We are gifted in love, and only one sentence or even one action can produce unexplained reactions; But if it doesn't appear, that is to say, this sentence has not been guessed to lose love, and it has vanished. In order to get in touch with fate, maybe we should believe it. If a tram passes in front of you, you have to pay attention to: are you deliberately stuffed under the next car; If the mind is sensitive and nervous when necessary, that's good. However, it is good to do this on any tram, but we always don't have enough strength to be a sensitive person. At this time, we can only admit with a smile that we usually only dream about meaning and patterns afterwards. A coherent plot of life is just a cunning means of a timid person. In fact, there is only a pile of debris, and the woman you don't remember at the only moment is not waiting for you-why? In fact, along the small chain of absurdity and coincidence that changes your life, is it worthwhile to find meaning, cause and effect, fault and return? Maybe it wasn't that door that you strayed into at that time, but a small box condensed by literary dreams?

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How did he find his little box among these collapsed things? Now I can't remember how he dragged it. At first, he didn't even understand. It was he who found this sewing machine box of Shengjia brand, but he felt bulging. He found these nails and copper horns he had seen in his dreams, even before he was born because of mildew in his infancy with poor memory-it was an illusory memory of something he had never seen before. There is no lock on the box, the wooden handle is half off, and the side panel seems to be stained with black-burnt. God knows how many years have passed since the lid of the box overflowed: the smell of kerosene for lighting, burning, bedbugs, diseases, rot and rotten hay-all these are air samples left in the box by accident, a sigh of the passage of time, or a part of the breath left by the person who squatted on the box for the last time and closed the box tightly ... as if I had prepared them in advance, I would grab them and put them in a test tube. A clear head needs to speculate that the small box may have been opened, and it must have been opened to determine the fate of these things in the box. However, at this time, maybe a clear head doesn't work, or the smell still exists, just like a thin layer of gray spider web hanging in the corner, with two spiders gently mummified-they are treasures that have lost their original value, and they are completely loyal guards. The bottom of some candy paper was turned up, and the handwriting on it made Lizawen tremble.

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Let's turn into a pile of candy paper and rummage with Anton Andreyevich-even if it's so-so; What can we do? We can't know more. Unequal width and indistinguishable burrs caused by scissors prove that sometimes candy paper is cut by hand, or large-sized paper strips are bent and torn. For example, guidebooks have been printed on this paper for some time. This proves that Milasevic himself prefers some small candy wrappers, rather than using them as a last resort. Sometimes the candy paper full of words is dense, the font is small, and it is written in good ink. It is clearly written in a comfortable environment at home, and sometimes it is clearly scribbled. It was written while driving, perhaps on a bumpy carriage, with a chemical pencil dipped in saliva and corresponding fonts added. The whole note sometimes consists of an incomplete half sentence (starting with lowercase letters and ending with no period) or even a unique word that is difficult to understand. There are some dirty papers, which seem to be picked up from the ground. There is a piece of Zhang Qian paper, which is undoubtedly the manure in the stable. By the way, it has unpredictable and not very beautiful words, written in strange handwriting: "from Trotsky." Many candy wrappers are wrinkled, which reminds people of a poet who put his manuscript in a very elegant pillow to sleep. Simeon Kondratyevich undoubtedly prefers to sleep comfortably, but some strange things about himself can cause such a comparison.

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"At the thought of unexpected meeting, this impression was captured in summer ... No, it wasn't captured-it was a feather left on the finger, but it was actually fluff. When the organization is clear, they can be integrated into a pillow or even a fluffy mattress-feathers next to feathers, the best down mattress. "

"Feathers can be accumulated and made into specimens, exactly the same as those alive." -The same idea is expressed in different ways on other candy wrappers. "No, life will no longer exist in it."

This is like philosophical thinking about a genre, which sounds familiar-a genre that stops and spreads instantly. Simeon Kondratyevich is obviously good at this. He is keen on magnifying glasses. In the candy paper, we can not only meet the delicate pollen in the style and the stamens in the hot calyx, but also meet the sound of spoons knocking on the glass and the rustling of candy paper-the joy of mainlanders drinking tea for recreation; The stove whizzed, the wick trembled in the lamp bowl, and the flame reflected on the glass window and turned to outer space, as if hoping to warm its distance. Everything has gained great significance, everything has been expanded, a hot liquid, footsteps in the street, washing at home, a bubble in the basin, and even smaller: foam film. Some thought fragments also take this as the topic, such as: "It's not even words, but shouts, sighs and language attempts. Later, the disciples compiled the gospels. " Or: "You can accept everything: the sky, the grass, the flower beds and the bright sunshine ..."-The whole outline can be omitted, but does this solve the same problem: the possibility of candy paper genre?

But as a rational school. All candy packages can be bound by some explanation, not explained. Here is more or less a notebook, a constant record of all kinds of daily work, and a result reflected by literature when you catch all kinds of trivial things for need or backup. Sometimes, Lizawin vividly imagines how the librarian wears pince-nez and Tolstoy-style men's coat and a thin belt instead of a tie, pulls out a small box (or cigarette case, if assumed) full of candy paper from his bulging chest pocket, pulls out one and extracts it from the newspaper; Imagine how he wore boots and a white hat, took off the tin hat on the chemical pencil, stopped on the road, leaned against the partition and copied poems, or copied the inscription in the cemetery: "Nikita Fukun, once a slave of God and now a free citizen of God, sleeps here." Imagine how he meditated in the market, at the rally and on the road; I forgot to get rid of the flies on my sweaty forehead and record the thoughts, details and words that flashed on the paper-"The daily chop suey in my life ..." What should I do with these candy wrappers? Go home and throw it in a small box? Or how to use it? Or is it the material of the book mentioned by Schemeikka?

On other candy wrappers, you can obviously see some little-known and sometimes quite familiar plot drafts-more precise details, plot twists and dialogues between characters. Once again, I had an unforgettable illusion of puddles. "Raft drifted to the front, we boarded the raft, and the helmsman was waiting for us. Be careful, I said, don't step on it. " Milasevic seems to be thinking about the solemn ending of the sequel and the short story he wrote a long time ago. He has returned to his hometown and achieved the meeting: "Oh, I said, shall we have some more tea?" -there is such a sentence. By the way, once again, we forgot to mention the little piece of paper (not candy paper) that recorded the assassination of gavrila Principe and an angel-like boy. It turns out that similar children have appeared on candy wrappers several times, sometimes playing in flowers and plants, and sometimes wearing levinson-style gray children's jackets, which are the uniforms of Stolbenez free boarding school. The children's mouths are full of curiosity and selflessness. Does Milasevic want to develop an ambiguous plot? I don't know. Just like I can't figure out who the first person on the candy paper refers to. Some sentences express feelings. I don't know if they are children's or just a little man's. Some people wear light boots with heels hidden in their shoes, and high hats make them look almost as tall as others. Some people stood on tiptoe and reached for the doorknob-they finally opened the door for themselves. "At dusk, many people's knees, strange smells, and honey biscuits with spices moved to places with their bare hands. With the sweetness of a layer of sugar peel on the tip of the tongue, joy returned to the boiling world from the semi-bright and semi-dark room through the doorway. " What is this? Nature is a feeling of childhood, an incomprehensible moment of happiness: a child walks into the house from the street and someone gives him honey biscuits. I don't know who it is, and he doesn't need to know. Knowing it won't make him completely surprised. But who is this child? Is it Simon Kondratiev himself? Or is this just another experience of "portable eyes"? It can be inferred from this that the child born out of wedlock had an unhappy orphan childhood-does he prefer discontinuous moments to organized experiences? In such a frozen mass, these moments can give you the feeling you want. In addition, candy paper shows the philosopher's strange but consistent attitude towards the times.

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If we can even imagine the time sequence of notes, then they are likely to form a flowing picture by themselves, and we can feel some life integrity in its development. However, even the puzzling horticultural records made in the cargo register, although they also recorded the month and date, ignored the age-not to mention those small pieces of paper. This method of keeping a diary itself shows his incoherent artistic creation, which shows that he is not a real natural scientist. About the date, some places can only be judged indirectly, such as what is printed on the back of the candy paper. For example, printing "Down with Alcoholics" on hard candy for hangover can confirm that the date of the note is not earlier than the new economic policy period. There is another indirect sign. For example, the beginning of a poem I don't know where it was shot: "The ninth year has passed/after we gained all our freedom" (the word "anniversary" is on the back of hard candy). It is clear that this is 1926. What is this? No, this kind of casual dating is systematic: some notes can even be grouped under the same title.

Long overdue.

The length of time is created by creatures full of time. For mind and memory, eternity and moment are inseparable, and everything exists in eternity at the same time.

What if the structure of our minds is not only possible, but also the numerical sequence of numbers is relative?

I held out my hand-when did this happen? Look, your palm is above mine. What else can be put in between the beginning and the end of the movement?

Our life-all the year round-is a children's merry-go-round.

Seven old rubles is a lot of money now. Then please convert God's seven days into scientific calculation.

By the way, the calculation of the date in the last note is indirect, although it is approximate. It can also be classified as a note like this: "When you borrow 500 rubles, you are forced to return it after one week 1000, which is the time." In addition, this note also shows Milasevic's unique sense of isolation, which was deepened by the revolution. Pick some similar candy wrappers, and time is described by experience: "When a bottle of wine sells for 50 kopecks in a distant village, but it is very cheap in a nearby village, this is incredible time." "When the new work is not finished, but the feelings, tinkering and re-understanding of the old work are still going on, this is time." Or a passage like this: "This is the year when Golgotha started sewing wallets again." A dull beginning without continuation; It should be positioning-that is, it should be understood as such an image, such as "the crime scene in front of time." Or more simply: "the spark of time." By the way, is this about the candy paper itself? There is a reference to a watch without a pointer on the list-something from a hypothetical short story. Other sentences can be said to give Anton andreyevich reasons to think. For example, "it is meaningless to seek the beginning without the end." You can compare this note with another: "According to a series of generated evidence, you will find the nature of the world, but you can't explain anything." Here you can see a person's opinion. He refuses to consider the origin, connection and history and look for the root of the present in it, just as he refuses to think about death ... But what you can see in the first sentence is only the opinion of a notebook without a cover, right? ...

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In Milasevic's portraits, some only sketch the eyes, nose and eyebrows, and they want to be together assiduously. Not only these sketches, Lizawin even added a title to a group of candy wrappers: semi-metaphor. They all start with "as if": "It's as if you put your own chess on the board and suddenly find the other side playing checkers." "It seems that he was picked up like an extra mechanical part, cleaned with kerosene and put back in its original place." You see, if you like, there is: "It seems that people are trying to overlap and reassemble the scattered ice pieces with broken edges." Or: "Like a breeze before the sun hides behind a cloud." Or: "It seems that an unexpected and unexplained world was born under the baby's open fingers." Or: "This seems to be a charge in a dark cloud. I hope there is no lightning." Anton sometimes feels as if he knows what this means and can find the lost half. Anyway, he can combine metaphors with his feelings. "Entertainment at a public gathering"-Milasevic seems to confirm this possibility-"Holding a torn card in his hand, looking for the other half of the card in the dancing crowd-I'm afraid he is also looking for it, making a fuss at an inappropriate time and failing to get what he wants: What can I do? I look at my eyes but I can't eat my mouth. " It seems that Simeon Kondratyevich is also interested in similar entertainment. In one of his short stories, the children played a familiar game: each of them took turns to draw his head, body and limbs on origami, but they couldn't see what he had drawn. As a result, they look clumsy and ugly, sometimes with a bird's beak, a furry belly and a fish's tail, and sometimes on the contrary, with fish heads and wings, but wearing leather shoes on both legs-an unexpected grotesque painting full of life interest, a sport as old as the world. Many things in Milasevic are grotesque paintings: a long-horned face with human teeth suddenly appeared in the candy paper, and a flower-like phonograph horn grew in the flower bed. Sometimes, Rizawen feels that there seems to be something fishy behind this, even if it is not intentional, and sometimes it even surprises and confuses the author himself. One day, while waiting in line to buy salad oil, Anton andreyevich thought of this problem: the line was not long, so he stood in front of the corner, but somehow he didn't move. He tried to leave several times, but every time it was a pity that time was wasted; Laugh at your cooking and continue to waste more and more time; Finally, I found that salad oil was no longer sold, as if it had never been sold at all, but I promised to sell some-all this must be related to the sentence "the crime scene in front of time". It's like a mystery. As if I had thought about it. If there's something fishy here, I don't know who I'm with, why remind me to do it. But perhaps, this is purely accidental, and it is not worth exploring deeper connections and doubts here. Looks like a password. It is also possible to choose the burr on the incision to match the unevenness and combine the broken vase from the debris, so there is a problem. Have you ever had a vase? Didn't Milasevic himself warn against copying specimens? By the way, the notes about the specimen and the feather tray are not put together at once-you try to pick them out from a lot of candy wrappers like Lizawen. He first took out the pile of candy paper from the small box and gradually increased it. At first, it was bigger than its original container, so it may not hold it any more.

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"Can you put any nose on any chin?" One day Anton wrote on a small piece of paper that if such a nose is connected with such a chin, then it can determine the structure of the throat, and perhaps the esophagus, teeth and stomach. "By the way, he began to put these pieces of paper in his pocket in case he wrote down those thoughts and observations that passed by. Does Milasevic's example have an impact on him (just as in the case of years of close communication, it naturally and even inevitably has an impact on style and sentence structure)? Anton Andreyevich didn't think about this problem until he found his own new method after reading Milasevic's scattered notes.

"The frosting on the window glass is not completely random. They spread everywhere according to the guidance of invisible notches in the eyes; The composition law of ice crystals is mathematically accurate. "

"What can we say to another person who is not far from us in time, space and conditions? No, what can we say to people living around us? What we can achieve is only the superficial and external facts within our perception, and our interpretation of them is only within our own ability and endowment. If we want to explain it in general. "

"Besides, do we really know ourselves? Why did you look around in confusion when you found out what had happened to us? " It was written on another piece of paper, with a refill of another color, obviously written at another time, but it has obvious connection with the above one, although he forgot two notes afterwards-like this one:

"We are struggling in the torrent, and we can't feel its essence or direction. Does the torrent really have a direction? "

Anton andreyevich doesn't date anywhere, but he can guarantee that some of his notes are once a month. However, why didn't he pay attention to the date? Maybe he didn't realize that he repeated Milla and Sevic here-but now he can be sure how smoothly and continuously he can take notes, as if all his wishes have come true. I found a little note about it in his place.

"Contact seems to be established naturally. You turn around-it seems that life has its unexpected unity and direction after all. You turn in the same direction year after year, and accidentally add the same concept, or the same confusion. "

(translated by Yan Yongxing)

Precautions:

Refers to the assassination of Austrian Crown Prince Ferdinand on June 28, 2004, also known as the Sarajevo incident.

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Fate line, the representative work of Russian contemporary writer Haritonov, was written in 198 1 to 1985, and was originally published in the first and second issues of National Friendship magazine 1992. In the same year, he won the Booker Prize for his first Russian novel, which was praised by critics as "a classic of postmodernism".

The reason why this novel is respected is mainly because of its fragmentation, collage and parody in form. It subverts tradition in content and pursues the effect that literature exists outside morality. The plot of the novel is bizarre, full of absurdity and symbolism. In a mysterious little box, there is a mysterious manuscript written on countless candy papers. In the process of cleaning up and interpreting this manuscript, the protagonist Li Zawen's own consciousness wandered back and forth between other people's manuscripts and his own destiny, interwoven with many confusing stories. Breaking the tumultuous plot and laying out many details, fate line, an intellectual with two different times and two different experiences, vaguely revealed that two beautiful women and their touching love stories were implicated. The work got rid of the fetters of realism and made a philosophical reflection on human destiny. The corresponding double-line structure, narrative mode of stream of consciousness, and slightly ironic and detached subjective attitude towards the past and destiny in the novel reflect the post-modernism tendency of Russian literature after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.

The author adopts the Chinese structure, that is, analyzing and thinking about another text in one text, so that the protagonist Rizawen can interpret the works of another character, Milasevic. Therefore, Milasevic, a writer and philosopher who lived around the October Revolution, came into being under his fictions, and Milasevic's works-novels written on candy paper-became the object of the author's analysis and interpretation in the text. The narrative subject of the novel is not static, but switches between four voices, namely the voice of the narrator, the author, Lisa Wei and Milasevic. These four voices constitute multiple narrative angles.

Many post-modern theorists believe that the original state of the world is discontinuous and fractured, and fragments are the most expressive means to express this feature. Haritonov believes that debris is the real form of fate, and the uncertainty, fracture and discontinuity between debris can truly reflect the "eternal moment" of life. "We usually only dream about meaning and patterns afterwards. A coherent life plot is just a sly means of cowardice, but there are only a bunch of fragments." Text is no longer the pursuit of an ultimate meaning, but a network that can be interpreted infinitely. It tries to eliminate meaning, while constantly resorting to meaning. "In fact, looking for meaning, looking for reasons, looking for faults, and returning along the small chain of absurdity and coincidence that changes your life, is it worth it? Maybe it wasn't that door that you strayed into at that time, but a small box condensed by literary dreams? "

The novel "fate line" revolves around a piece of candy paper and records the trajectory of life. In Milasevic's view, each piece of candy paper is independent, and there is no necessary connection between them, so he didn't classify and number the candy paper, and didn't record the date. "If we can even imagine the chronological order of the notes, then they are likely to form a flowing picture by themselves, and we can feel some integrity of life in its development." But it is precisely because of this that this fragment of life trajectory-the independent and incomplete record of sugar paper-woke up in Rizawen's consciousness many years later. Although its uncertainty and discontinuity bring difficulties to understanding, it provides Rizawen with the possibility of various combinations. Milasevic, the author of Candy Paper Novel, is fully aware of the role of debris: "An unexpected idea, an impression captured in summer ... No, it is not captured-it is a feather left in the finger, but it is actually fluff. When the organization is clear, they can be integrated into a pillow or even a fluffy mattress-the feathers next to the feathers, the best down mattress. " "You can accumulate feathers and make a specimen that is exactly the same as alive." -The same idea is expressed in different ways on other candy wrappers. "No, life will no longer exist in it." In Rizawen's view, this passage is Milasevic's reflection on this kind of literature composed of short segments, which can enhance the instantaneous effect and combine it into different texts.

In his novels, Milasevic vividly explained the artistic effects brought by different combinations of candy paper. In one of his short stories, children play a familiar game: "They each take turns to draw their own heads, bodies and limbs on origami, but they can't see each other's pictures. As a result, they are clumsy and ugly, sometimes with a bird's beak, a furry belly and a fish's tail, and sometimes on the contrary, with fish heads and wings, but two legs wearing leather shoes-an unexpected grotesque painting, a grotesque painting full of life interest, for example, although sometimes it looks unacceptable when combined, the world and life are like this, full of accidents and opportunities. It is these candy wrappers that make Rizawen realize the unspeakable nature of the world and life: a person's fate is full of accidents, and even a small thing may change his life, just as the position of these candy wrappers and one candy wrapper changes, which will cause the order of other candy wrappers to change. In this sense, it is really appropriate to record life with fragments.

In addition, the philosophical exposition of "about time" in this paper greatly enriches the philosophical connotation of the works and expands the meaning space of the novel. Milasevic put forward a diversified mode of thinking through his own view of time. Milasevic believes that "the length of time is created by the living matter full of time. For the mind and memory, eternity and moment are inseparable, and everything exists in eternity at the same time. " "Our life-all the year round-is a children's merry-go-round." After establishing this concept of time, Milasevic lived in a state without time. His contempt for objective time directly led to his doubts about time, life and the world. "What is this ticking device that forces us to act only in one direction? We always succumb to the inertia of habit, without even trying to get to the bottom of it: why on earth is this? Can you change it? What if our thinking structure is not the only possibility and the continuity of numbered numbers is only a hypothesis? " Milasevic believes that the one-way fluidity of time and the continuous arrangement of numbers are premises and assumptions, and there is no absolute legitimacy. Similarly, there are many such things in our lives that need to be questioned. Avoid a single way of thinking-only know how to accept it, but try to think from multiple angles. All these give Rizawen reason to think that "there is no end, and it is meaningless to seek a starting point". You can compare this note with another: "According to a series of generated evidence, you will find the nature of the world, but you can't explain anything." -You can see a person's opinion here. He refuses to consider the origin, connection and history, and looks for the root of the present in it, just as he refuses to think about death ... Rizavan may not realize that he is repeating Milasevic's words here: "Connections seem to be established naturally. You turn around-it seems that life has its unexpected unity and direction after all. You turn in the same direction year after year, and you accidentally get it right, adding the same concept or the same confusion. " This kind of thinking breaks the integrity and unity of life. Their doubts about time and eternity and their confusion about seeking meaning all reflect the fragmented state of modern society and imply the fate of individuals in the fragmented world.

Writers should explore not only Milasevic's fate line, but also Zawen's fate line and even many Russian intellectuals' fate line. Known as the "postmodern classic", this work is not only a simple language game, but also an immortal work with profound connotation.

(Ada)