小说《了不起的盖茨比》的作者有一段流传甚广的话:The test of a first rate intelligence is to have two opposed ideas at the same time and still retain the ability to function.* 那一夜,我算是function了吗?
*"The test of a first-rate intelligence," F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in his landmark essay "The Crack-Up," "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." The two opposed ideas of creative nonfiction are finding order in chaos without reforming chaos into order; retaining the ability to function is the act of writing all this down for someone else to understand . . .