Monday, February 25, 2008

Author of Lust .Caution ---- Zhang Ailing



“我立在阳台上,在黯蓝的月光里看那张照片,照片里的笑,似乎有藐视的意味,然而那注视里还是有对这世界难言的恋慕。 ”
  ——张爱玲

  1995年的9月8日,张爱玲一个人在纽约的公寓孤独地离去。这位本世纪中国最优秀、最惊恐不安,也最沉静的女性作家,为其传奇般的一生画下了一个诡异的句号。

Why I feel that she is talking to me from her old pictures. I wonder if I can go back in time, would we became friends? I would bump into her in a store in the state, and just start talking. If that happened, I would have been around her when she was dying in a tiny apartment in a strange foreign country with no one around.