约一年前 ,在《花城》1999年第 4期上读到史铁生的《病隙碎笔》,它带给我的比《我与地坛》更甚的感动和清醒 ,至今难以释怀。这么久后才读到他的续篇 ,而且在这之间 ,并没见到史铁生有多少其他的文字发表 ,可以想见 ,他大概正在经受病痛对他的折磨 ,否则 ,就没有《病隙碎笔》(2 About a year ago, when I read Shi Tiesheng’s “Sick Piece” in the fourth issue of “Huacheng” in 1999, it touched me even more than I and Ditan. So long after he read his sequel, and in between, did not see how many other published text Shi Tiesheng, we can imagine, he is probably suffering from pain to his torture, otherwise, there is no “Sick Broken Pen ”(2