时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

In Liverpool, England, Tommy McCue painted and carved, from wall to wall, from ceiling to carpet. He covered everything in his home after a stroke caused by aneurysms on both sides of his brain.


It was a creative obsession 1 that began a few days after he returned from the hospital. First, he began talking in rhyme and filling notebook pages with poetry. "Line after line, all the time, maybe it was in line, cup of tea just for me, nice and sweet, just be neat.”And then his wife Jane handed him a sketch 2 pad." And he’d filled the page with these little alien heads. There was hundreds on the page and everyone on them had a different expression."


The old Tommy McCue, the one his wife knew, was no artist or poet. Early in his life, he was wild and hot-tempered. And he got in trouble for fighting, theft and heroin-addiction. "How much time did you spend in jail?” "About nine years. While in my time I spent some in solitary 3 confinements 4, through violence and escapes and things like that."


 When he suffered a stroke at the age of 51, it was as if this man who once had been processed in and out of prisons had now been processed into a new existence. And doctors were no help in attempting to explain it. "It was just awful and I was constantly on the phone to people, trying to get help or I don't understand at all what's going on coz I thought he was going insane."


These are just some of the compulsive and sometimes disturbing by-products of the urge to create that followed his stroke and destroyed his marriage. He was convinced he had two brains. "I was split through earbob." He confronted his wife by claiming to be Vincent Van Gogh. "At this point, I was gotten really scared and he said you just don’t know me at all and that for all, I don’t."



1 obsession
n.困扰,无法摆脱的思想(或情感)
  • I was suffering from obsession that my career would be ended.那时的我陷入了我的事业有可能就此终止的困扰当中。
  • She would try to forget her obsession with Christopher.她会努力忘记对克里斯托弗的迷恋。
2 sketch
n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述
  • My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
  • I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。
3 solitary
adj.孤独的,独立的,荒凉的;n.隐士
  • I am rather fond of a solitary stroll in the country.我颇喜欢在乡间独自徜徉。
  • The castle rises in solitary splendour on the fringe of the desert.这座城堡巍然耸立在沙漠的边际,显得十分壮美。
4 confinements
限制,被监禁( confinement的名词复数 ); 分娩
  • He challenges social confinements and shows his dignity in the end. 裘德挑战社会限制并展现他的尊严。
  • Effect of confinements on insensitive high explosive( IHE) is studied by photoelectric test. 采用光电测试的方法,研究了钝感炸药的约束效应。
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(impressio gastrica (renis))
akebine
all's fish that comes to his net
anion exchange filter
annell
arsono
art of dynamic programming
assamar
authorized personnel only
auxiliary carrier cable
ball packing
Bartley-Mozley table
Big Star
bogeymen
brandies
Bratsk Dam
cadastration
calibration charg
chained field
Chald.
compression nystagmus
continuous wave radar
coral formation
cowpox virus
curved spacetime
cyclomyces lingus desv.
dephenylchlorarsine
design basis external man-induced events
district housing management bureau
divided ring
DOLICHOSOMA
dual-zoner
Dunning.
Duque de York, Isla
dysstechiasis
EEPROM
end-of-reel routine
ephemeris data
Euler Mascheroni constant
Ewingidae
fallacinol
finite codimension
fir filters
FM-FM telemetering system
foot rot of sheep
high-altitude photo
Hochtor
house call
Iitto
infortunable
inventoriable expenses
keratocyte
kogus
leathery cheese
loudness-contour selector
make your peace
mechanical route indicator
melanostatin
mudear
no-load tap changer
opsonophoric
patrilocal marriage
peeling tester
permissible tensile stress
phone-booths
pillar-crane
poincare figure
political skills
potyvirus narcissus yellow stripe virus
pterygoid lamina
re-gathered
reciprocating lights
remote computing monitor system
Rewari
samely
Santiago, Vol.
saurimo (henrique de carvalho)
search my heart
signal distributor
single contact operation
single succession
single-purpose cutting nippers
sodium potassium carbonate
sol-
souspirable
stanhopeas
sulfurized cutting oil
surcoat
therater of war
truevision
truxillines
unscrambled
Upington
vacuo
Valdenses
variable rate account
vasostimulant
walking away with
water charge of irrigation
water side deposition
wearied