【书摘】The Great Blue Yonder
很悲伤又很温暖的书。关于生命,关于死亡,关于挂念与原谅,关于失而复得与重获新生。
小男孩Harry 在车祸中去世,变成了一个小小的、透明的小幽灵。可是他无法忘记死之前和姐姐Eggy 的争吵,无心的愤恨和一语成谶的咒骂。他想和Eggy 说对不起,说他们都不必再自责,说他已经原谅了她,不回去原来的世界与Eggy 和解之前他不会安心走向 Great Blue Yonder,他和另一个小幽灵Arthur 溜出天堂,目睹曾经他生命中重要的人们,如何将没有他的生活过下去。
他以为朋友和同学们已经遗忘了他,却意外地发现班级的小小角落里贴着每个人写给他的信;
他以为没有谁能看得到他,却意识到猫Alt 可以真实看见他以鬼魂的形式存在;
他也看到了每天去他的墓前的爸爸和凝视着书桌上他的照片的姐姐;
泪点是 Harry 用意念艰难控制铅笔写下对姐姐的话,但是最后他没有力气了,Eggy 的名字没能写完,铅笔从空中落了下来。
最后Harry 完成了所有未能释怀的念想决定前往The Great Blue Yonder, 而Arthur,在天堂游荡了一百年寻找妈妈,也终于与妈妈相遇。
他们重新进入生命的轮回,成为另一个生命灵魂里的某一部分,像落叶在泥土中新生。
摘抄:
But although the sun is always setting, it never quite does disappear. It just hangs there, almost as if time is suspended, like a canopy in the sky. So it’s always a glorious colour there, all yellows and reds and golds and long shadows. It’s like summer and autumn all rolled into one, with a dash of spring for good measure, and hardly any winter at all.
And I start to wonder what that could mean ‘letting go’ and ‘moving on’ and where all these people had moved on to. And it allseemed such a mystery.
I could see it clearly now. It couldn’t have been more than a hundred metres away. It seemed to glisten in the sunlight like a huge halo, full of wonderful shimmering colours like in the patterns you might see in a kaleidoscope. It was the arc of a beautiful rainbow.
So on we went, on towards the everlasting sunset, the eternal twilight which never got brighter or darker but which just always was.