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Last winter I found an old box of letters in my mother's house.去年冬天，我在母亲的房子里找到一箱旧信。 The paper was yellow, and thin sediment lay along the bottom.信纸发黄，底部压着一层薄薄的「沉积物」。 Every name had a small marker before it.每个名字前都有一个小「标记」。 That little sign, which no one uses now, showed the mood of the page.那个如今没人再用的小符号，显出了那一页信的心情。

I copied the letters into my computer and built a small corpus.我把这些信录入电脑，建了一个小小的「语料库」。 I counted words, hoping to see a pattern.我数了里面的词，想从中看出一个规律。 The corpus showed a change that was more than semantic.这个「语料库」显示出的变化，不只是「语义的」。

Her early sentences were long.她早期的句子很长。 They moved like water in a low river.它们像低处河水一样缓缓流动。 Later her style changed, and the sentences grew short and direct.后来她的风格变了，句子变得又短又直接。 That was not simple mobility of style.那不是风格上的「流动性」。

Age can encode a person in writing, the way a gland can secrete a slow oil.岁月能在文字里「编码」一个人，就像腺体能「分泌」一种缓慢的油脂。 Onwards in the box I found the cortex, and I thought of age.从那些「往后」的信里，我看到了「大脑皮层」，想到了衰老。 A neural pathway kept each old word, and a neuron held its place.她脑中的「神经」通路留住了每一个旧词，而一个「神经元」还守着自己的位置。 A written sentence is a small machine that carries a moment across time.一句写下的句子，就是一台把某一刻带过时间的小机器。