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1、THE LOVER Part I ONE DAY, I was already old, inthe entrance of a public place a man came up to me. He introduced himself and said:'I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young,but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than
2、 your face as a young woman, I perfer your face as it is now. Ravaged.'I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I've never spoken. It's always there, in the same silence, amazing. It's the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I
3、 delight.Very early in my life it was too late. It was already too late when I was eighteen. Between eighteenand twenty-five my face took off in a new direction. I grew old at eighteen. I don't know if it's thesame for everyone. I've never asked. But I believeI've heard of the way time ca
4、n suddenly accelerate on people when they're going through even the most youthful and highly esteemed stages of life. My ageing was very sudden. I saw it spread overmy features one by one, changing the relationshipbetween them, making the eyes larger, the expression sadder, the mouth more
5、 final, leavinggreat creases in the forehead. But instead of beingdismayed I watched this process with the same sort of interest i might have taken in the reading of abook. And I knew I was right, that one day it would slow down and take its normal course. Thepeople who knew me at sevente
6、en, when I went to France, were surprised when they saw me againtwo years later, at nineteen. And I've kept it eversince, the new face I had then. It has been my face. It's got older still, of course, but less, comparatively, than it would otherwise have done. It's scored with deep, dry w
7、rinkles, the skin is cracked. But my face hasn't collapsed, as some with finefeatures have done. It's kept the same contours, butits substance has been laid waste. I have a face laidwaste.THE LOVER Part II So, I'm fifteen and a half. It's on a ferry crossing the Mek
