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1、ContentsTitlePageForeword:SufferingIsOptionalOne:Who’sGoingtoLaughatMickJagger?Two:TipsonBecomingaRunningNovelistThree:AthensinMidsummer—Running26.2MilesfortheFirstTimeFour:MostofWhatIKnowAboutWritingFictionILearnedbyRunningEveryDayFive:EvenIfIHadaLongPonytailBackThenSix:NobodyPoundedthe
2、TableAnymore,NobodyThrewTheirCupsSeven:AutumninNewYorkEight:18TilIDieNine:AtLeastHeNeverWalkedAfterword:OnRoadsAllRoundtheWorldAlsobyHarukiMurakamiCopyrightForewordSufferingIsOptionalThere’sawisesayingthatgoeslikethis:Arealgentlemanneverdiscusseswomenhe’sbrokenupwithorhowmuchtaxhe’spaid.
3、Actually,thisisatotallie.Ijustmadeitup.Sorry!Butiftherereallyweresuchasaying,Ithinkthatonemoreconditionforbeingagentlemanwouldbekeepingquietaboutwhatyoudotostayhealthy.Agentlemanshouldn’tgoonandonaboutwhathedoestostayfit.Atleastthat’showIseeit.Aseverybodyknows,I’mnogentleman,somaybeIshou
4、ldn’tbeworryingaboutthistobeginwith,butstill,I’malittlehesitantaboutwritingthisbook.Thismightcomeoffsoundinglikeadodge,butthisisabookaboutrunning,notatreatiseonhowtobehealthy.I’mnottryingheretogiveadvicelike,“Okayeverybody—let’sruneverydaytostayhealthy!”Instead,thisisabookinwhichI’vegath
5、eredmythoughtsaboutwhatrunninghasmeanttomeasaperson.JustabookinwhichIpondervariousthingsandthinkoutloud.SomersetMaughamoncewrotethatineachshaveliesaphilosophy.Icouldn’tagreemore.Nomatterhowmundanesomeactionmightappear,keepatitlongenoughanditbecomesacontemplative,evenmeditativeact.Asawrit
6、er,then,andasarunner,Idon’tfindthatwritingandpublishingabookofmyownpersonalthoughtsaboutrunningmakesmestraytoofaroffmyusualpath.PerhapsI’mjusttoopainstakingatypeofperson,butIcan’tgraspmuchofanythingwithoutputtingdownmythoughtsinwriting,soIhadtoactuallygetmyhandsworkingandwritethesewords.
7、Otherwise,I’dneverknowwhatrunningmeanstome.Once,IwaslyingaroundahotelroominParisreadingtheInternationalHeraldTribunewhenIcameacrossaspecialarticleonthemarathon.Therewereinterviewswithseveralfamousmarathonrunners,andtheywereaskedwhatspecialmantragoesthroughtheirheadtokeept
