晨读英语美文100篇 Passage 20. Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen
 音频下载[点击右键另存为][00:01.09]Passage 20. Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen[00:07.76]Suppose someone gave you a pen — a sealed, solid-colored pen. [00:14.00]You couldn’t see how much ink it had. [00:16.95]It might run dry after the first few tentative words [00:21.11]or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) [00:26.36]that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. [00:30.41]You don’t know before you begin. [00:33.04]Under the rules of the game, you really never know. [00:36.76]You have to take a chance! [00:38.84]Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. [00:43.65]Instead of picking up and using the pen, [00:46.71]you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. [00:52.84]But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? [00:56.89]How would you play the game? [00:58.93]Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? [01:03.20]Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? [01:08.23]Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, [01:13.37]struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you? [01:19.60]Would you write cautiously and carefully,as if the pen might run dry the next moment, [01:25.62]or would you pretend or believe (or pretend to believe) [01:30.22]that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly? [01:34.49]And of what would you write: [01:36.78] Of love? Hate? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Everything? [01:43.46]Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? [01:47.51]Or yourself by writing for others? [01:50.57]Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? [01:55.28]Fancy with a flourish or plain? [01:57.68]Would you even write? [01:59.32]Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. [02:03.26]Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw? [02:06.55]Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? [02:13.22]Or are they? [02:14.31]There’s a lot to think about here,isn’t there? [02:16.83]Now, suppose someone gave you a life... |
