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2020.2.27 Tangerine Diary, the Moon and Sixpence

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    Today I tried to read Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence". I only read less than a third of the book, but the title is very interesting.  The author Maugham said it means "Some people only see the moon in the sky when they are young, but never see the sixpence."

    ? After reading the preface and the contents of the first two chapters, I understand the general content of this book.  The prototype of "The Moon and Sixpence" is the French impressionist painter Gauguin. It mainly tells the story of Strickland, a British stock exchange broker.  Like "being possessed by the devil", he suddenly abandoned his home and ran away to Paris to pursue his ideal of painting.  He lived in poverty, but he was still immersed in his dream and never regretted it.  In the process of pursuing art, his talent was gradually recognized.

    Strickland chose to start over at the age of 40, desperately engaged in the field of art.  Not at the age of 20, but at the age of 40, and have a wife and children with a stable job.  He was not reconciled to living such a mediocre and comfortable life. He said that the brave are also lonely. This kind of crazy behavior seems so incomprehensible in the eyes of the world, just like Don Quixote.  But this may be the author's original intention of writing: When we look up at the moonlight, we should not forget to look down, and we must know how to make ourselves happy at every stage of life.

    When I was reading, I naturally thought of a sentence that impressed me when I watched the program a few days ago: "People must learn to go up and down, take root down, and blossom up."

    It would be nice to have the moon in the sky and sixpence in the palm of my hand.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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