War in the belly--Wang Xiaobo

When I was young, I got sick and lived in a hospital. There were no doctors in the hospital, all peasants-born medics-the real doctors all went down to the team to accept peasants re-education. That being said, in a white coat, what would he call a doctor? The first day I was hospitalized, the doctor came to the rounds, looked at my test list, and took my stethoscope to listen to me again and again, and finally asked: What disease have you got. The original test sheet he didn't read. In fact, do not have to test a single can see my illness: I am all over the same color as the tea overnight, is making jaundice. I told him that, according to my own estimation, I probably got hepatitis. This happened more than 20 years ago, was not heard of hepatitis B, but also did not hear hepatitis C-butyl liver and hepatitis E liver, only one kind of infectious hepatitis. It is said that this kind of hepatitis China did not originally, or three years of difficult time to eat the Iraqi dates eaten out-called dates, is actually dates. Although I did not eat dates, I also got this disease. The doctor asked me what I should do, I said you give me some vitamins--my illness is such a cure. To say the truth, the hospitalization was of no help to my condition. But I think it's better to live in a hospital and live in a team and infect others.
There is no other pastime in the hospital, only to see the doctors to give people an axe. The knife always opens to the appendix-it should be said that they have a little bit of heart, knowing that no other surgery can be done. I said look at the operation is not nonsense, the local often without electricity, electricity when the voltage is also very unstable, the operating room is surrounded by all the windows of the House, two o'clock in the afternoon sun best, that is, surgery-the whole hospital patients are outside watching, bet each other to find the appendix for several hours. Later, I talked about this with my friends from the medical school, and they didn't believe it, saying that the appendix was still active for a few hours? Whether you believe it or not, I've seen a few surgeries that haven't found an appendix in an hour. The operation of all said, people's cecum is too difficult to find-the middle of them are a few troops mules, attended to military horse surgery, Horse's cecum is very big, mule of the cecum is not small, which the cecum is larger than the human, is to consider the person small in the inside, his cecum is too small. Idle chat, I said to them: you are not familiar with the water of people, do not give people an axe. What do you think they said? "The more you are not familiar, the more you move--Learn war in war!" "Now the young people may not know, this latter sentence is Chairman Mao's quotations." Man's intestines and war are not matter, but there is no one to say. I think one of the most heinous things: every surgery they let a novice to do, so that everyone has the opportunity to learn war, so the appendix is always found. The edge is open in what part, open how big also entirely by personal interest. But I must say them a good word: although some of the knife-edge left, some edge to the right, there are some open in the central, but all the knife-edge open in the belly, this is commendable.
I met a man in the hospital, he made appendicitis, and the doctor mobilized him to cut the axe. I advised him not to cut the axe--in case he had to, he asked me to open it. Although I have not studied medicine, but fixed an alarm clock, but also repaired the team a hand-cranked telephone. By these two, how is also better than these doctors in the hospital. But he still let others open, mainly because others want to learn war in the war, how can not agree. Also he unlucky, open the belly, looked for three hours also did not find appendix, urgent to have his intestines all took out, the next one to close down. When I was a child near my home, selling soy, stewed intestines, early in the morning when the chef washes pig intestines outside the door is such a scene. See the sky more and more dark, others also try to find, a little lug. My buddies were looked impatiently, domination the middle of the white cloth curtains, also to help find. Finally found in the sun before the sunset, cut it down, the sky is dark, if one step later, dark, it is not visible, you have to open the Chamber for a stay. Originally I like to eat pig intestines most; I don't want to eat it ever since I've seen this surgery.
After nearly 30 years, suddenly I think of the hospital to see others surgery, mainly felt at the time of the people in the muddle, is crazy. Who knows, perhaps in another 30 years, look at today's people and things, also will find some people are also crazy. So it seems that our rationality has a qualitative leap every 30 years--but I suspect it is wrong to understand that. Reason can fly like this, that is to say that the original people have no reason at all. Say 30 years ago, the solo uncle with a dark hand pinched the living intestines up and down Daoteng, although he said he was learning war, but I do not believe he does not know that he is in a nonsense. The result is a conclusion: all the absurd things in the world, the environment of the whole society is a reason, but not the main. The main thing was: The man who was rioting was borrowing his liquor. That is to say, he knew he was fooling around, but he had to go on, mostly because he was happy with the nonsense.
We can also get further inferences: No matter what society is, the individual is responsible for his actions-but as the author of the essay, the inference is written out, it is a direct dew suspicion, so to stop. I have not finished the hospital: I live in the hospital, hepatitis is not good, the complexion is more and more yellow; My buddies have surgery, the blade is always not long, people are more and more thin. Then we went back to Beijing to see a doctor. As soon as I came back ill, my buddy went into the hospital and opened a knife again. The doctor in Beijing said that the last time, although the appendix was cut off, but the intestines did not sew, glued to the edge of a fistula, the intestines of things along the edge of the outside, so the edge of the old bad. The doctor also said, take the outside still extremely lucky, the belly inside, the person is finished. My buddies don't think there is any luck, he just said: "Mom, no wonder always eat not full, the original has been missing." This brother is a very heroic person, if not, he will not take his guts to others to learn war.

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War in the belly--Wang Xiaobo