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February 22

人人都在写回忆录。就拿这回美国总统竞选的热门人物来说吧：Romney写了一本，Huckabee也写了一本，Giuliani当然也有。John McCain年纪一大把了，回忆录多得数都数不清。Obama年纪轻轻，可是已经回忆出两大本了。Hillary经验丰富，却只写了一本。Obama的人气现在比Hillary高一倍，主要就是这个原因。

我也要写回忆录。名字我已经想好了：《我的无聊人生》。初步确定分十卷，每卷三十章，每章一万字。没有史诗的内容，也要有史诗的长度。

可是且慢！互联社会信息爆炸，大家的注意力只能集中六秒半。史诗长度的回忆录，不管有没有内容，大概都没人看了。美国的《史密斯》杂志走了流行的极简主义路线，要求读者把自己的人生浓缩成六个字。六个字看似少，其实容量很大。海明威就写过一个六字小说："For Sale: baby shoes, never worn." 《史密斯》杂志把读者的回应集结成了一本300多页的书，名字叫：Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure。

摘录几段：

给Esquire杂志写专栏Chuck Klosterman's America的Chuck Klosterman说：“Nobody cared, then they did. Why?”——这六个字用在达尔富尔问题上也挺合适。

默默无闻的歌手/作曲家Adam Schlesinger自嘲说：We still don't hear a single.

作家Sebastian Junger谈自己的写作经验： I asked. They answered. I wrote.

普通读者的六字经也不俗：

有傲视世俗的：
No wife. No kids. No problems.
Catholic school backfired. Sin is in!
Planning spinsterhood with basil, not cats.

有回首往事的：
Seventy years, few tears, hairy ears.

有沾沾自喜的：
Despite disorders, jafroed jewboy gets girl.

有愤愤不平的：
Girlfriend is pregnant, my husband said.
Revenge is living well without you.
Born bald. Grew hair. Bald again.

有无限悔恨的：
Found true love, married someone else.
After Harvard, had baby with crackhead.

告别十卷回忆录，我也要走极简路线。我的人生六字经？“Still clueless after all these years”。

12:51 AM | Blog it

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	Leiwrote: millionaire next year? Yeah, I wish! June 7
	小时了了wrote: Harvard postdoc now, millionaire next year. June 6
	Leiwrote: Negative, but true. How about this: "Couldn't find job. Became Harvard postdoc." Mar. 12
	Changyuwrote: man, this is a good one, though your version is too negative. Mar. 12
	笋wrote: “活过，爱过，写过”，司汤达的墓志铭，翻译过来也刚好是六个字。 Mar. 12

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