Suppose someone gave you a sealed, solid-colored pen. You couldn't see how much ink it had. It might run dry after the first few tentative words or last just long enough to create a masterpiece （or several） that would last forever and make a difference in the scheme of things. You don't know before you begin. Under the rules of the game, you really never know. You have to take a chance!

　　Actually, no rule of the game states you must do anything. Instead of picking up and using the pen, you could leave it on a shelf or in a drawer where it will dry up, unused. But if you do decide to use it, what would you do with it? How would you play the game? Would you plan and plan before you ever wrote a word? Would your plans be so extensive that you never even got to the writing? Or would you take the pen in hand, plunge right in and just do it, struggling to keep up with the twists ? Would you write cautiously and carefully, as if the pen might run dry the next moment, or would you pretend to believe that the pen will write forever and proceed accordingly?

　　And of what would you write: of love? Hatred? Fun? Misery? Life? Death? Nothing? Or everything? Would you write to please just yourself, or others, or yourself by writing for others? Would your strokes be tremblingly timid or brilliantly bold? Fancy with a flourish or plain? Would you even write? Once you have the pen, no rule says you have to write. Would you sketch? Scribble? Doodle or draw? Would you stay in or on the lines, or see no lines at all, even if they were there? There's a lot to think about here, isn't there?

　　假設(shè)有人給你-一個(gè)密封的，純色的鋼筆。你不能看到它有多少墨水。它可能會(huì)干枯后寫(xiě)上幾個(gè)字就足夠長(zhǎng)的時(shí)間來(lái)創(chuàng)建一個(gè)杰作（或幾個(gè)）會(huì)持續(xù)到永遠(yuǎn)，影響事物的變化。在你開(kāi)始之前你不會(huì)知道。在這個(gè)游戲規(guī)則下，你真的不知道。你必須抓住每一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)！

　　事實(shí)上，這個(gè)游戲里沒(méi)有規(guī)則指定你必須要做什么。而不去使用鋼筆，你可以把它放在書(shū)架上或抽屜里就干了，沒(méi)有任何用處。但是，如果你決定要用它的話，你會(huì)做什么？你怎么玩這個(gè)游戲？你會(huì)在你開(kāi)始寫(xiě)字之前計(jì)劃嗎？或者你的計(jì)劃是非常廣泛的，你永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)動(dòng)筆呢？或者你會(huì)把手中的筆，一頭扎進(jìn)去就去做，努力跟上的曲折？你會(huì)小心謹(jǐn)慎的'寫(xiě)字，好象這支筆在下一個(gè)時(shí)刻就沒(méi)有墨水了，或者你會(huì)假裝相信筆可以寫(xiě)到永遠(yuǎn)？

　　那你會(huì)寫(xiě)些什么呢：愛(ài)？仇恨？好玩嗎？痛苦？生活嗎？死亡？什么？或一切嗎？你寫(xiě)作只是為了愉己，或其他人，或由別人為你寫(xiě)的？你的落筆會(huì)是顫抖膽怯的還是鮮明果敢的？花里胡哨還是樸實(shí)無(wú)華？你會(huì)寫(xiě)嗎？你一旦有了這支筆，沒(méi)有規(guī)則說(shuō)你必須寫(xiě)作。你會(huì)素描？涂鴉？信筆涂鴉？你會(huì)留在還是線上，或者根本看不到線，即便他們?cè)谀抢铮坑泻芏嘀档盟伎嫉氖虑椋皇菃幔?/p>

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