love
in the age of cholera
How long can a person wait for love, in "Love in the Time of Cholera", Alyssa and Fermina tell us that it is 51 years, 9 months and 4 days. Today, the epidemic we are experiencing is telling us that where there is fear, there is love, love in disaster, even greater and nobler.
Epidemics are in love
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Lu Kai, the backbone of the Shanghai Civil Defense Command and Information Support Center. At the beginning of the epidemic, the two of them said that they would rush to the front as party members and sign up for volunteers together if necessary.
Chen Ying, a nurse from the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, entered the frontline battlefield for 11 days and met her boyfriend for the first time, which was a kiss across the glass. They decided to get their licenses when the outbreak was over. The protagonist of the photo that touched us has been certified!
How strong can the love of the twilight years be in the isolation of the epidemic? The answer is hidden in a note from an old "post-90s" couple in Hangzhou. After the outbreak of the epidemic, Grandma Huang Guoqi, who lives in the Geriatrics Department of Hangzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has to write down such a note every day, and then ask the hospital nurse to hand it to his wife Sun Nianjie, who lives in the icu ward of the same hospital.
On the passageway of the isolation ward of Shaoxing People's Hospital in Zhejiang Province, surveillance video records the occasional encounter of a medical couple.
Zhang Shihua, an internal medicine doctor at Pidu District People's Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan, missed his wedding date due to the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and in the isolation ward, across the glass, he wrote all his apologies and love on a piece of paper: "Today, I owe you a marriage contract, this life, I will spend my life to protect!" ”
Zhao Yingming, a young nurse, followed the medical team to support Wuhan, and when she set off, her husband rushed to her outside the car and shouted: "Zhao Yingming, come back safely, you come back safely, I promise to cover a year's worth of housework, I do Ha!" ”
Read the classics
Seeing each other is a luxury, hugging is a luxury, and this battle allows us to witness the best in love. It turns out that the warmest love words in this world are not "I love you", but "as long as you are safe". Today is Valentine's Day, and on this Valentine's Day, which is experiencing the epidemic, let us read Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" again and understand its profound significance.
On my travels, I would read some literature related to my profession, such as García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera.
——Zhang Wenhong
About the Author:
García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer, journalist, Nobel Laureate in Literature. Born in the town of Arakataca, Magdalena province. The main feature of García Márquez's work is the ingenious combination of fantasy and reality, as a way to reflect the real life of society and examine life and the world. His important works include the novels One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), The Decline of Parents (1975), and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). Even if you haven't read his book, you must have heard Marquez's name.
Márquez said: There are two books that make people feel as if they have been hollowed out, one is "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and the other is "Love in the Time of Cholera". The famous "One Hundred Years of Solitude" won the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, and "Love in the Time of Cholera" is a world-famous love story in the traditional realist style.
Storyline:
"Love in the Time of Cholera" tells the story of Alyssa and Fermina's two love stories when they know each other as teenagers and fall in love in their later years, which is one of the most popular novels in Márquez' theme. Márquez once said: "This one is my best work, it is my creation from the heart." ”
To catch the pet parrot flying on the branches of a mango, Dr. Urbino, 81, climbed up a ladder, and just as he grabbed the parrot, the ladder slid open at his feet and hung in the air, and the doctor realized he was dead. Dr. Urbino was famous throughout the country, and his death shook the doctor's entire family and affected the city. To commemorate the death of the doctor, the city declared mourning for three days, various institutions and shops lowered their flags to half-mast, and all church bells rang non-stop.
Fermina, The wife of Dr. Urbino, stood by the altar and said goodbye to the visitors. After Fermina had delivered the last of her relatives and friends who had come to mourn her husband's death to the door facing the street, she was closing the door when she saw Alyssa in mourning clothes. She was surprised, for years ago she had erased him from her life. Alyssa solemnly put her hat on her chest with a shudder, and the words that had accumulated in her heart suddenly exploded: "I have waited for this opportunity for half a century, and I will always love you and be loyal." Fermina chased Alyssa away in anger. For the first time since that disastrous afternoon, she had quietly cried, she had cried for her husband's death, for her loneliness and anger, and everything he had left behind had brought her to tears. They had just celebrated the golden wedding, and they were dependent on each other, and no one could leave anyone, and no one could ignore anyone, otherwise they would not live for a moment. Although as they get older, they become less and less aware of this feeling. Neither he nor she could tell whether this interdependence was based on love or comfort.
Fifty-one years, nine months and four days, after being rejected by Fermina, Alyssa finally waited for the day to come. At the age of 22, Alyssa was illegitimate and dependent on his mother, Trancito. He worked as an apprentice at the post office. When she stumbled upon the beautiful Fermina through the small window of a villa, Alyssa knew that she had met the love of her life. So he began to express his love to Fermina in letters. Fermina was also gradually moved by Alyssa's writings, and through her aunt, she and Alyssa exchanged letters. They missed every day of the day, dreamed of it at night, eagerly waited for letters and replies, and apart from which they did nothing, even from the first time they met, until half a century later, when he reaffirmed to her his unfailing love to the death, they had not met or spoken once. Nearly two years into the frenzied correspondence, as Fermina agreed to her request for marriage, her father was furious when he learned of their relationship, and his goal had always been to make his daughter a noble lady. So her father forced Fermina out on a tour, asking her to forget about the past. Fermina had always been immersed in fantasy, poetic love, so when she returned from a trip four years later to see Alyssa again, she was disappointed, her mind changed so quickly and without hesitation, with a wave of her hand, erasing him from her life.
Many years later, Fermina became the wife of Dr. Urbino. Dr. Urbino was young and promising, and he succeeded in stopping the last cholera spread in the province, establishing a clean and safe watercourse system and public market, and gaining the respect of the whole city. Just as her father had hoped, Fermina became a noble lady, living happily with the doctor, and she had long forgotten her first love.
Yet Alyssa was always in love with Fermina, and for the next half century or so he thought of Fermina at every moment: when he was Mr. Ghostwriter, he pinned his emotions on love letters written for others; he was unmarried all his life, searching and lost in countless female flesh; he threw himself into his career and finally became the chairman of the shipping company that matched Fermina's status; he cared for Fermina's health in the hope that one day the doctor would be with her after death.
After the doctor's unexpected death, Alyssa finally gained enough courage to reaffirm to Fermina his vow to love her faithfully and forever. Alyssa's presence lifted Fermina from the grief and loneliness of widowhood, and a year after the doctor's death, she finally agreed to travel with Alyssa. Towards the end of the trip, Alyssa, in order to live with Fermina on board the ship without interference, advised the captain to make a direct voyage, without loading cargo, carrying passengers, and not landing at any port. But there is only one possibility that this can be done, and that is when a plague breaks out on board, the ship declares itself in quarantine, raises a yellow flag, and makes an emergency voyage. The captain obeyed Alyssa because he was the chairman of the shipping company, and they transferred the passengers to another company's ship, hung a yellow flag, and began a journey back and forth from the starting point to the "Golden Harbor".
When the captain asked how long would such a come-and-go voyage last? Alyssa, who had waited for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days, was already well aware of this: "One life." ”
link:
Cholera is an acute intestinal infectious disease caused by Vibrio cholerae, which is acute, fast-spreading, widespread and harmful. The main clinical manifestations of severe cholera patients are severe diarrhea, vomiting, dehydration, circulatory failure, and metabolic acidosis. If rescue is not timely or improper, it can die within a few hours to more than ten hours after the onset of illness. The name cholera disease first appeared in the Chinese medicine classic "Neijing", which was also discussed in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" of the Han Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty also had a monograph "On Cholera". Cholera is an oral infection of the intestine, which is often transmitted through water, food, life contact and flies. In view of its transmission routes, a good job of safe water supply and good environmental sanitation can prevent cholera epidemics.
From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century, there were eight worldwide cholera epidemics, and regional epidemics occurred several times. From 1817 to 1823, the first large-scale epidemic of cholera spread from the "homeland of human cholera" to Europe in the Ganges Delta of India, killing more than 60,000 people in Britain around 1818 alone. From 1826 to 1837, the second pandemic of cholera crossed Russia and reached Germany, Britain, Canada and the United States. From 1846 to 1863, the third pandemic of cholera spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere. The fourth pandemic of cholera, between 1865 and 1875, was triggered by a ship from Egypt to England. From 1883 to 1896, the fifth pandemic of cholera reached Egypt. From 1910 to 1926, cholera was the sixth pandemic. The seventh cholera pandemic, which began in Indonesia in 1961, affected more than 140 countries and territories on five continents and reported more than 3.5 million patients. In October 1992, the eighth cholera pandemic swept through parts of India and Bangladesh, reporting more than 100,000 cases and thousands of deaths in just 2-3 months, and subsequently affecting many countries and regions; since September 1997, cholera has spread on a large scale in Africa, with 11,335 cases reported in Uganda and 10,108 cases reported in Kenya in the first three months of 1998 alone.
The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you, collect little bits and pieces of laughter along the way, and leave it until later sitting in a rocking chair and talking slowly. The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you until we are too old to go anywhere, and you still regard me as a treasure in the palm of your hand.
Bless the lovers who will eventually become dependents!
Text: Chen Jing (from Life and Disaster)
Editor: Chen Jing wang jie
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