读了阎纲写的《临终前的忏悔》（《文学自由谈》１９９８年第３期）。他说的是不久前去世的作家乔典运写的《命运》，一篇在癌症手术后病榻上苦苦支撑留下的自传性文字；说这是饱经沧桑的作家对同辈、后辈作家的遗嘱，“人之将死，其言也善，我将之视为一位作家弥留之际痛... Yan Gang wrote the “penitence of the dying” (“Freedom of Literature” 1998 the third period). He is referring to the “destiny” written by Qiao Dian, a writer who died not long ago, and an autobiographical document left by the post-cancer patient’s sickbed. He said that this is a will of the vicissitudes of life of writers of peers and younger writers. The death, its words are good, I will see as a writer dying on the occasion of pain ...