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Have been listening to this Jolin Tsai cover of 《怀念》 for more than a decade (wow time flies, and did you know I was a hardcore Jolin fan?) 也许喜欢怀念你 多于看见你 我也许喜欢想象你 多于得到你 这首歌的确听了无数次,歌词颇有味道。 有的时候我们爱上的其实不是对方,而是对方所给予我们的感觉。 Well I could be listening to a song that could bring us together. You could be doing something that reminds you of me. After all, there should have been a lot of interactions between the duo for them to be constantly reminiscing about each other, right? "Imagined communities" ? Perhaps we could look at it the same way Benedict Anderson explains it: as a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group. 感性上,我们可以用间接的方式去怀念,去寻找这个人的气味和踪迹,然后在心里一次次的演练在一起的场景。 可是理性上呢,我们却又因为各种莫名其妙的原因,觉得彼此不可能在一起,所以反而会对真实的接触有所抗拒,担心有朝一日伤害到彼此,甚至玉石俱焚。 说来奇怪,越美丽的东西我们似乎越不敢碰。 It's an irony knowing that we are rejecting things beautiful because it seems "too good for us". It's like seeing somethi