Verse 23: Fragments of memory

Think back to when was the first time Melly and I greeted each other face-to-face before this encounter? When and under what circumstances did she begin to make a clear and concrete impression on me? I began to try to regain the fragments of my memories in that class period, trying to figure out a clue, but I found that only some general situations left some inconspicuous traces of memory in my mind. It seems that in those days, Melly, like all the other girls who came and went around me, never caught any attention from me. In my memory, during that time, I came into contact with European classical music works and ancient Greek drama by chance, and immediately began to read books related to Western music history and ancient Greek theater. Words such as ancient Greek theater festivals, etc., under the influence of these words, naturally ignore the specific time when Melly appeared in my sight, which is a limitation caused by human instinct.

In this case, those memories that are not related to the books I am passionate about will naturally become dislocated and scattered, and the idea of my memories has thus become a crystal fragment with a very irregular shape - the surface is covered with crystal fragments of large and small sections, no matter from any irregular section, the person or object on the opposite side will become fragmented or seriously deformed due to refraction, and lose its original appearance, the only thing that can be determined is that there is an objective object on the opposite side of this crystal fragment. But that's it. I had never thought of deliberately sorting out and piecing together these "fragments of memory" related to Melly at that time, because it was unnecessary!

Now I'm trying to recall the scattered fragments, as if I were splicing together a film that has been cut into many sections, with an approximate time. The word "Melly", as a pure name, a symbolic concept, existed in my impression for about three or four months (because I can't remember at what point in time the existence of this meaning ended), and as for which girl the name belonged to, and all the things related to this name, I didn't deliberately form any memories at that time. No one thinks it's necessary to think deeply about an unfamiliar name that they just hear from someone else's conversation. What I can gradually recall is that in the first days of the first semester of my junior year, when I was moving from sophomore to junior year, several people in my class were drawn by the student council to welcome the freshmen. Most of them go with the goal of seeing how many beautiful girls there are in the new class of students, which is the kind of thing that is not unheard of in any school in the first season, and when they come back, they will have a review, and that's it. At that time, it wasn't that I didn't want to see beautiful girls, but I didn't have a strong idea. Of course, there is no shortage of beautiful girls on campus, but if you see too much, you will inevitably have the inertia of "not noticing". Besides, my attention at that time was not on "going to see beautiful girls".

On a fine afternoon, I sat in my seat by the classroom window, watching Euripides The Tragedy alone, looking out the window at the outdoor tennis court hidden in the shade. Occasionally, I hear a staccato violin etude coming from nowhere. At this time, the two boys who were in charge of receiving the new students and the two boys who pretended to be in charge of the reception of the new students were talking about pushing the door in.

"Hey, Han Yu, today is the day when there are many beautiful girls going to school!" One said.

"Hmm!" I put down the book in my hand. "Looks like you've feasted your eyes!"

"What else do you need to say?" Another said.

"Today is your lucky day!" I said with a smile.

"There's a girl majoring in information management, and she's very beautiful!" , said one of the two.

"Yes, yes, what's your name?"

"Hmm...... Call...... Melly, yes, that's right, it's called Melly! Because she is very beautiful, I also took a special look at the name on the booklet, it is her! ”

That's how Melly's name first came to me through conversation. Since then, I have left the impression that Melly, a freshman majoring in information management, is beautiful.

Give me enough time for the details to come out like a stellar explosion.