- 3）Gould说过，他如果没有成为一个钢琴家，就会成为一个作家。 他制作了很多电视广播节目。其中最有名的一个节目叫做：“北方的理想”。这是对加拿大寒冷的北方以及那里的居民的赞美。北方对他来说，是大自然，是勇气，是道德，象征着纯洁和不朽。我读了苦瓜和Lucy 的阿拉斯加，就想到了Gould 的北方。Gould 的北方和他的巴赫一样感动我。
"I was fascinated by the country as such. I flew north from Churchill to Coral Harbour on Southampton Island at the end of September. Snow had begun to fall and the country was partially covered by it ... this flat, flat country frightened me a little, because it just seemed endless ..."
"I always think of the long summer nights, when the snow had melted and the lakes were open and the geese and ducks had started to fly north. During that time the sun would set but, when there was still a last shimmer in the sky, I would walk out to one of those lakes and watch those ducks and geese just flying around peacefully or sitting on the water, and I felt that I was almost part of that country, part of that peaceful surrounding, and I wished that it would never end."
"You know what one young fellow told me? He was taking -- I forget what he was taking -- probably philosophy. He said this was the myth of Sisyphus. Matter of fact, he lisped but I didn't, I think. And the fact is that he had quite a time with it, and here was some wretched -- who? King? was it a king? Yes, a king of Greece -- Corinth? Well, might have been Corinth, and here he was, rolling this confounded rock up to the top of this precipice, for some reason or other, and then he let gravity take over and it hit the bottom. And then he did the same thing again, no doubt with a larger rock."
"There's the outside world and there's a barrier -- the barrier may be lack of road or maybe eight or ten miles of stormy water, whatever, it is a barrier creating the state of isolation. On the other side of that barrier there is the rest of the world.. Now, everything in the outside world that's trying to get in, if it were all good, all desirable, of course isolation would be a terrible thing..."
"[Faulkner's] novels are universal in that they deal with the universal problems of the human soul or, as he preferred to call it, the human spirit. But if you can interpret these problems in terms of a strong local region, you can do it much more surely and much more convincingly. Well, let me put it this way; perhaps "The Last Supper" is as great an abstract work of art as anything produced."
"In a certain sense, of course, Newfoundland itself is a fantasy..."
"I could tell you some very interesting stories about some of these people. I knew two brothers who lived there in that area, one on one side of the point, the other on the other, about 100 yards apart, and I don't suppose one of them visited the other in twenty years, just stayed apart, no animosity mind you, no animosity, friendly, and they didn't ask for help from the other one. Both of them had large boats, 30 - 40 ft, boats; they would get these out of the water in the Fall, repair them themselves, requiring help but yet they would do it themselves, they were that type. And you know the interesting thing about it, the follow up? I buried the both of them the same day, one on one side of the point, the other on the other. The ashes of one on one side of the point and the body of the other on the other side.."
"I suppose I see it through slightly rose-tinted glasses now and I see it in a sense as a romantic sees it and as a sentimentalist sees it ... [but] you can't seal these places off and make museums out of them. The impact of modern technology is bound to be felt."
"You can't build an island of holiness in the middle of a city…"
"The breakdown of the historic, ethnic Mennonite kind of existence, in view of their relatively recent concern for being in the world in order to evangelize, is also, at the same time, the road that will lead them away from that which they have been and, in many cases, that which they have called cardinal to their own existence."
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