1、优质文档优质文档Unit 1 The written wordWrite Your Own LifeSuppose someone gave you a pena sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldnt see how much ink it had.It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece (or several) that would last forever and make a diffe
2、rence in the sc heme of things. You dont know before you begin.来源:学_科_ 网Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance! Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer wher
3、e it will dry up, unused.But if you do decide t o use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game?Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing?Would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do i
4、t, struggling to keep up with the twists and turns of the torrents of words that take you where they take you?Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if t he pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend to believe that the pen will write forever?And of what would you write: Of love?
5、Hate? Fun? Life? Death? Everything?Would you write to please just yourself? Or others? Or yours elf by writing for others?Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fa ncy with a flourish or plain?Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would yo
6、u sketch? Scribble? Doodl e or draw?来源:学,科,网Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all? Or are they? Theres a lot to think about here, isnt there?Now, suppose someone gave you a life.来源: 学| 科|网书写你的生命假设有人给了你一支钢笔一支密封的、纯色的钢笔。你看不到里面有多少墨水。来源: 学科网可能刚刚试写几字便用干耗尽；或者可能足以完成一部或几部杰作，永存于世 ，使世事为之大变。
7、而这一切你在开始之前却是一无所知。根据游戏的规则，你确实永远也不会知道，只能冒一下险。事实上，也没有规则说你就一定要做些什么。你可以把笔搁 在架子上、放在抽屉里，弃置不用，任墨水蒸发干净。但是，如果你真的决定使用它，你会用它 做什么？来做这个游戏怎么样？你 会 左 计 划 、 右 计 划 ， 然 后 才 慢 慢 下 笔 吗 ？你 的 计 划 会 不 会 太 泛 太 多 ， 根 本 就 达 不 到 写 作 这一 步 ？会不会提笔在手，迫不及待地投入其中，任由手中的笔、笔下的字带着你在词海中上下翻腾、左突右冲？会不会下笔谨小慎微，似乎墨水随时都将 干涸？会不会假装相信钢笔中的墨水永不会枯竭？你会写些什么？爱情？仇恨？乐趣？生命？死亡？世事万种？来源:Z&xx&k.Com你会用来自娱？还是取悦他人？ 还是为别人写作而愉悦自身？你的一笔一划会颤抖怯懦还是亮丽大胆？花里胡哨还是朴实无华？你确实会去写吗？你一旦有了这支钢笔，却也没有规则说你一定就要去写。你会粗粗写来？潦潦草草？信手涂鸦？还是认真描画？你会写在线里还是写在线上，或者对纸上的线格根本就视而不见？真的有什么线格吗？此时此刻，有很多东西值得思考，不是吗？那么，假设有人给了你一次生命
