"The Obscured Sky" is a famous novel by the American writer Paul Bowles. It's about a couple who left the bustling city after World War II and went to the African desert in hopes of finding the security they needed.
Paul Bowles's essay "The Search for a Spiritual Home in a Seemingly Hopeless Quest." "In the novel, the hero and heroine have a series of bizarre stories in the desert, and in one betrayal after another, love eventually goes to death. What "obscures" the "sky", and what does the "sky" imply? The novel is profoundly illustrative.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, about love, is the beautiful story in history just a legend? </h1>
Ever since there were Fuxi and Nuwa, Adam and Eve, love was born, and there was proper attachment and endless words for clutches and grudges.
In ancient China, there were four love legends of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Xu Xian and White Lady, Niu Lang and Weaver Girl, Meng Jiang and Qi Liang, and there were also classic love stories such as Romeo and Juliet, Orpheus and Yu Lidai, Cleopatra and Antony, Lanse and Gina Wei.
Sorrow, sorrow, joy, and joy, the reason why they can flow for hundreds of generations and sing for thousands of years is because they scrupulously abide by their loyalty and indomitability to love, even if they are martyred.
"May the hearts of one man be won, and the white heads shall not be separated."
"As a husband and wife, there is no doubt about love."
"The mountains have no edges, and the heavens and the earth are united, but they dare to be with the king."
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These beautiful and moving love stories and aesthetic poems are romantic and inspire generations of people to have an infinite vision of beautiful love.
Once upon a time, "husband and wife were originally the same forest bird, and the great trouble was about to fly separately" for the shallow and righteous couples to find excuses and excuses for marital infidelity and infidelity. Because the "great difficulty" is difficult to bear or difficult to solve, it is "forced" to "fly separately" or have a "theoretical basis" that can barely be said.
When I finished watching "The Obscured Sky", for a moment, I felt that this sentence was very reasonable. Wolfe said in the introduction: "They decided to wander in North Africa, but it was a wrong choice."
North Africa is an endless desert.
Walking into the desert, Jitte, who has been married to the hero Potter Mosby for 12 years, betrayed their love before his death, abandoned it before his death, and fled alone.
Did they die in love because they chose this desert?
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, love begins with beauty, fission in the insecurity brought about by the lack of responsibility. </h1>
I believe that when they first met, like most diet men and women, Potter and Kit firmly believed in marriage and the beauty of love. The novel begins by saying, "They have been married for 12 years. "The folk saying that the seven-year itch has passed safely.
The couple was materially rich and wealthy, but spiritually unconfigured. Perhaps traumatized by the war, insecurity slowly grew between the otherwise happy couple.
"No place in this world can make them feel safe." The resulting mutual suspicion, jealousy, disgust, and resentment are like a bed bug that gnaws at their souls little by little, hoping that the other party understands themselves, hoping that the other party will bear the full weight, and hoping that they will have no responsibility in love and no worries.
"Watching him meticulously spread out the map, Kit felt a little funny, and a little annoyed."
"Potter was impatient, and he wanted to leave quickly so as not to be bumped into by Kit and Turner."
Admittedly, the betrayal of love by Jitte later is obviously shameful, but the foreshadowing has long been buried in each of them.
In order to find a sense of security, they simply chose to go into exile and have been on the run. In the end, they chose the silent and empty North Africa, the endless desert, and wanted to use isolation to pick up the sense of security they wanted, but in fact their insecurity stemmed from the spiritual and emotional distrust and lack of sustenance of the other party.
The first betrayal was on the train to Poseidon. Potter chose to travel with Lyle's mother and son, and let Kit and his fellow Turner take the train. Turner was "sturdy and amazingly handsome." After drinking on the train, Ji Woo and Turner have sex.
The second betrayal is when Potter is ill and dying, and Kit can't bear the fear of the soul, abandons it, and chooses to flee alone. On his way to escape alone, he met the Arab merchant Bel Qassim, who eventually became his forbidden body.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, even if love chooses the right person, it will change due to changes in the environment. </h1>
In the face of a marriage crisis, both men and women have a very similar law: the main cause of the gathering is me, the main responsibility of the dispersion is you, and even more the reason is attributed to the external environment.
Was wandering in the desert of North Africa the main cause of the death of potter and kitt's love? No, but it did hasten the death of their love. In this way, even if love chooses the right person, it will change due to changes in the environment.
It is undeniable that with the awakening of self-consciousness, the feudal marriage of finger-to-belly marriage and the end of the finger is gone.
The pursuit of self and mutual choice has become the mainstream consciousness of modern marriage, and there are slogans that "prefer to be single, never accommodate" and "get along, and scatter if you can't come together", which makes a marriage certificate a lot less sacred and binding.
There are thousands of love styles, but firm faith, sincere treatment, and sincere trust are the keys to maintaining the beauty of love. On the contrary, love will eventually go to the grave. Especially when the environment brings a bad impact on marriage, is it a choice not to abandon or to go their own way? There is a cognitive component to love, but it is more about human nature and morality.
It should be said that before Potter and Kitt walked into the desert, their subconscious cognition of life and love had been misplaced and deviated.
Doubt and jealousy take over their minds, and fleeing, or betraying, becomes the main tone of their thoughts. Walking into the desert is an inevitable choice, even if it is not the desert of North Africa, there will be another place where they feel worth fleeing, but no matter what kind of natural state this place is, it is nothing more than a desert for their long-deserted spiritual homeland.
From doubting the environment to doubting each other's loyalty, the process of development and change of things is deduced from the surface and inside, which eventually leads to the death of love.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > fourth, the essence of love, based on chastity and trust, manifested in giving and bearing weight. </h1>
The consciousness of freedom is an illusion reinforced by culture, it mercilessly erodes our values, and we resist in defeat and eventually stage a drama of the times.
Free love, marriage freedom, and freedom have become the unanimous pretexts of all sentient beings. From the pursuit of freedom, to the awakening of autonomous consciousness, to the expansion of self-consciousness, it is gradually eating away at the precepts of human nature and morality.
Perseverance or indulgence begins with a thought and is destroyed by a thing. Looking at the real reasons living in it coldly, it is impossible to give a definite assessment, just as reading "The Covered Sky" made me sigh like this:
"The desert of heaven and earth is quiet and desolate, and the so-called beauty is limited to the bystander, or to the imaginary world; the spiritual desert is barren and ugly, and the so-called beauty is a difficult desire to fill, and it is the walking dead who live on their own."
Qian Zhongshu has these reasonable quotes in "The Siege of the City":
"Marriage is a walled city, and people outside the city want to go in, and people in the city want to come out."
"In front of the beloved man, every woman has the skill of rejuvenation."
"You don't hate it, but it's useless."
It is true that long-term marriages do lack the enthusiasm of first love, and marriage needs to be managed, and it needs to be managed. With this thought, I have not lost this love, this sincere love, as i rocked.
And when we use material desires as a chip for choosing a mate, grabbing as a way of love, and pleasure as a judgment of happiness, ask ourselves, have we deviated from or deviated from the original intention of love?
In order to find the so-called sense of security, the materially rich Potter and Kitt couple did not manage their marital love with their hearts, to soothe or trauma caused by the war, and to rebuild their beautiful love together. Instead, blindly choosing to flee, escaping from real life, and looking for a more deviated and uncertain sense of security in the speculation and uneasiness, which eventually led to Kitt becoming a traitor to love, step by step towards unbearable nothingness, but also left us with deep reflection.
The charm of the classic lies in revealing the truest and deepest essence of human nature, and the novel deeply reveals the unity of the opposite of the nihilistic consciousness of life and the desire to live truly. The contradictions and difficulties of life are everywhere, all the time, living, longing to live truly is the main theme advocated by the novel, but also the essential pursuit of human nature.
Real life often imposes too many "harsh taxes" on the development of human freedom, and bondage and bondage often bring different degrees of distortion and repression to the mind, but any effort to detach from or transcend reality will eventually fail. Walking into the desert, you can't escape the shadow of reality contradictions and difficulties, enrich your own soul, and only then will life bloom dazzling flowers.