米蘭昆德拉論「書寫的狂熱」

抄錄米蘭昆德拉的舊作，《笑忘書》。

總之，是在網路時代之前出版的舊書......

我手上只有英文版，沒有中文版。

文中的關鍵字為「graphomania」，可以

中譯為「東寫西寫的幹勁兒；留下文字的狂熱」。

The irresistible proliferation of graphomania

among politicians, taxi drivers, childbearers,

lovers, murderers, thieves, prostitutes,

officials, doctors, and patients show me that

everyone without exception bears a potential

writer within them, so that the entire human

species has good reason to go down into the

streets and shout: “We are all writers!”

For everyone is pained by the thought of

disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an

indifferent universe, and because of that

everyone wants, while there is still time, to

turn himself into a universe of words.

One morning (and it will be soon), when

everyone wakes up as a writer, the age of

universal deafness and incomprehension will

have arrived.