海边的第欧根尼

“写‘不干了’的书，最后往往变成写那份工作。这一本写的是房租、风、退潮和酱油的价钱。一个人把生活拆开，又在无数个平常的星期四里重新装好——这是我读过最平静的一份记录。”

“Most books about quitting turn out to be books about the job. This one is about rent, wind, low tide and the price of soy sauce — and it is the calmest account I know of a life taken apart and put back together, one ordinary Thursday at a time.”

— 埃莉诺·沃斯，《潮汐历》
Eleanor Voss, The Tide Almanac

“一个人放弃城市，搬到空海边的一间屋子里住下。难得的是——他把每一笔账都留着。一年一年、一块一块、一个冬天一个冬天。读下来它不太像回忆录，倒像一本刚好很动人的账单。”

“A man gives up the city and moves into a flat by an empty sea, and then — this is the unusual part — he keeps the receipts. Year by year, yuan by yuan, winter by winter. The result is less a memoir than a set of accounts that happens to be very moving.”

— 托马斯·伊里亚特，《懒惰地理学》
Tomás Iriarte, A Geography of Idleness

“别的国家有隐士，也有主动退场的人。中国似乎终于有了一个——坐在出租屋里，手里一个本子、一个计算器。他从不争辩。他只写下今天花了多少、海是什么样子；翻到最后一页，结论自己站了出来。”

“Other countries have their hermits and their dropouts. It seems China now has a man in a rented flat with a notebook and a calculator. He never argues. He writes down what the day cost and what the sea did, and by the last page the argument has made itself.”

— 莎拉·奥孔克沃，《小小的反叛》
Sarah Okonkwo, Small Rebellions

“别指望从这本书里拿到许可。它一点也没有，而且几乎每一页都在说：这里没有工作，镇上大多是老人，冬天是一个决定而不是一个季节。它给你的是更稀罕的东西——一个真实的、标了价的、带日期的年份，后面没有硬接一个结论。”

“Nobody should read this book looking for permission. It gives none, and says so on nearly every page — no work here, mostly old people, winter a decision rather than a season. What it gives instead is rarer: an actual year, costed and dated, with no conclusion bolted on.”

— 荒井零，《什么都不做的练习》
Rei Arai, The Practice of Doing Nothing

“关于‘什么都不做’的书，我读过不少。这是第一本真的什么都没发生的。它几乎让人受不了——也正是我读过的、关于冬天的海岸最诚实的一本书。”

“I have read a great many books about doing nothing. This is the first one in which nothing actually happens, and it is almost unbearable, and it is the truest thing I have read about a coast in winter.”

— 林知远，《慢船去南方》
Lin Zhiyuan, The Slow Boat South