少年派的奇幻漂流 Chapter 21

Chapter 21,I am sitting in a downtown cafe, after, thinking. I have just spent most of an afternoon with him. Our encounters always leave me weary of the glum ¹ contentment that characterizes my life. What were those words he used that struck me? Ah, yes: "dry, yeastless factuality" "the better story." I take pen and paper out and write:,Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting ² feelings of elevation ³, elation ⁴, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than an intellectual understanding of things; an alignment ⁵ of the universe along moral lines, not intellectual ones; a realization ⁶ that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.,I pause. What of God's silence? I think it over. I add:,An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

,She laughed at his glum face.她嘲笑他闷闷不乐的脸 。,The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值
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