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大多数图书馆都希望读者保持安静，但我们日前到访了哥本哈根的一家图书馆，在这里大声交谈反而受到鼓励。
罗尼·阿贝格尔26年前创立了“人类图书馆”（又称“Menneskebiblioteket”）。需要明确的是，这里没有实体书籍，人们被称为“图书”。他表示：“这是一家借出‘人类’的图书馆，他们会像一本摊开的书一样，回答你提出的任何关于他们所分享主题的问题。”
所有“图书”都是志愿者。虽然你不能带着“图书”离开场馆，但在免费的30分钟交流时段内，他们会解答任何与其主题相关的问题。
目前全球80多个国家都设有人类图书馆，其中美国有6家，且计划新增更多分馆。大部分“借阅活动”在公共图书馆、中小学和高校内举行，也可在人类图书馆官网进行。
阿贝格尔说：“最受欢迎的‘图书’通常是关于心理健康的主题。精神分裂症、双相情感障碍、自闭症、焦虑症、抑郁症——所有这些话题几乎都是全球‘畅销书’。”
我在哥本哈根的目标是探访三位“图书”。
关于精神分裂症
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“很多人认为精神分裂症患者要么极具攻击性，要么完全无助，但事实绝非如此。”33岁的克里斯蒂安·萨纳说道。他大学主修量子物理，13年前被诊断出患有焦虑症和精神分裂症。那时他开始坚信自己时刻被监视，并怀疑自己所处的世界是虚假的。
“一个念头突然冒出来：也许我本身就是假的。我可能是个机器人，迄今为止我所经历的一切都只是植入我大脑的虚假记忆。”他告诉我们，“在精神病发作的状态下，我得出了一个结论：如果我是机器人或全息投影之类的东西，那我的血管里显然不会有血液，而是机油、电线之类的东西。于是我走到厨房，拿出一把刀。需要说明的是，这不是一次夸张的自杀行为，只是两刀非常克制、整齐的划伤。我甚至事先给刀消了毒！当我看到有血渗出来时，我就明白了，好吧，这里有血，看来我确实是人类，而我周围的世界是假的。又回到了那个理论。”
萨纳接受了药物治疗和心理治疗，如今十分珍视自己的家庭生活。“我现在状态很好。”他说。
阿贝格尔解释道：“我们会培训每一位‘图书’成为坦诚的分享者，因为我们的方法有些独特。这不是我给你讲一个长篇大论的故事，而是由你的好奇心主导对话。你最想了解我的主题的哪些方面？”
人类图书馆由私人基金会和公众捐款支持，所有分享人生故事的“馆藏书籍”均为志愿者。
关于难民
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另一本热门“图书”的主题是“难民”。“你原本以为对方和你截然不同，但不到半小时你就会想，天哪，我和这个人有很多共同点。”37岁的努拉·比塔尔说道。她是来自叙利亚的政治学家，20岁时与丹麦丈夫一同来到丹麦。
当时她一句丹麦语都不会说。那是2011年3月，针对巴沙尔·阿萨德总统政权的亲民主抗议引发了政府的暴力镇压和内战。
比塔尔告诉我们，这些年她作为难民在丹麦受到的待遇各不相同：“对一些人来说，我就是‘那个难民’。我想我已经接受了这个标签。大多数人，尤其是哥本哈根的居民，对我都很坦诚，但我也听过不少这样的说法：‘嗯，你看起来不像典型的难民。’”
他们这么说是什么意思？“我显然很自信，我为自己感到骄傲，我会说英语，也能说一口流利的丹麦语。我觉得人们有一种刻板印象，认为难民应该总是愁眉苦脸的，我不该穿得这么体面。”
“所以，关于穿着得体、谈吐优雅还有刻板印象？”我问道。
“还有受过高等教育。”她补充道。
丹麦的移民政策日益收紧，比塔尔目前仍在等待丹麦公民身份。如今，在离婚后，她期待着第二段婚姻，但仍在与创伤过往作斗争，包括有关叙利亚的梦境。“刚来的时候，我总梦见自己穿着婚纱走路，婚礼现场却有枪声。”她说，“我活了下来，但失去了朋友和家人，这种幸存者的负罪感一直困扰着我，直到今天。所以我的创伤后应激障碍总是会让我想象自己也中了枪，哪怕是在婚礼当天穿着婚纱的时候。我不知道，我还在挣扎——现在每次梦到叙利亚，我都会想，我会不会又陷入悲伤？”
有些问题是这些“图书”不会回答的。阿贝格尔说：“每本‘图书’都有自己的界限。如果你超出了他们愿意谈论的范围，他们会礼貌地告诉你：‘抱歉，这些内容还没有“出版”。’”
关于格陵兰
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在遇见55岁的维瓦·奥尔森之前，我从未见过格陵兰本地人。奥尔森是格陵兰原住民，她记得自己在大自然中度过的童年。“那是一段非常美好的成长经历。”她告诉我，“因为你刚一出生，就能跟着家人出海狩猎。我们捕猎驯鹿、北极熊、鸟类、鱼类和海豹，很多很多海豹。”
2009年她搬到丹麦时毫无不适，因为格陵兰是丹麦的自治领地。如今奥尔森在精神科病房担任患者助理。
我问奥尔森：“在特朗普总统表达收购格陵兰的意愿之前，那里的人们会关注他，或者说会很关注特朗普总统吗？”
“不会。”她回答，“我们一直把美国看成是乐土，友好又和善，美国在格陵兰的利益和存在都是良性的。”
奥尔森还清晰记得6岁时驻扎在祖国的美国士兵：“他们很受欢迎。圣诞老人会坐直升机过来，给我们送礼物。这些礼物基本都是美国士兵凑钱买的，给孩子们的。那真的很暖心。”
罗尼·阿贝格尔表示，人类图书馆已经影响了数百万人，或许正在改变人们的生活，呼应了该图书馆“不带评判地看待他人”的目标。“当我不再害怕你，你也不必畏惧我时，我们的生活质量就会提升。”他说，“如果我们能多一些理解和包容，所有人的生活质量都能得到改善。”
“我们不必成为所有人的挚友，但我们需要尝试去理解彼此。”阿贝格尔说道。
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Checking out The Human Library
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While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged.
Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or Menneskebiblioteket) 26 years ago. To be clear, there are no physical books there; the people are called books. “It’s a library where we give out human beings on loan, and they’ll be an open book for you and answer any question you have about the topic that they’re offering,” he said.
All the “books” are volunteers. Now you can’t leave the premises with the person, but they will answer any questions about their subject matter during the free 30-minute sessions.
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There are now Human Libraries in more than 80 countries, including six in the United States, with plans for more. Most “readings” take place at public libraries, schools and universities, and on the human library website.
Abergel said, “The most popular books are typically books on mental health. Schizophrenia, bipolar, autism, anxiety, depression – all of these topics are almost global bestsellers.”
My goal in Copenhagen was to check out three “books.”
On schizophrenia
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“A lot of people assume that people with schizophrenia are either dangerous or helpless; that is definitely not the case,” said 33-year-old Christian Sarner. He studied quantum physics in college, and was diagnosed with anxiety and schizophrenia 13 years ago. That’s when he came to believe he was always being watched, and wondered if the world he inhabited was fake.
“A thought popped into my head: Maybe I’m fake. I might be a robot, and everything I’ve experienced up until now is just false memories implanted into my head,” he told us. “So, in my psychotic mental state, I reached the conclusion: If I am a robot or a hologram or something, obviously I don’t have blood in my veins; I have oil, wires, something. So, I go to the kitchen and pull out a knife. And it’s worth mentioning at this point, this wasn’t a large dramatic suicidal thing. It was two very measured neat cuts. I even disinfected the knife beforehand! I realized, okay, there’s a bit of blood there, cool. Obviously, I am human and the world around me is fake. Back to that theory.”
Sarner took medication and started therapy, and today is cherishing his family life. “I’m feeling good,” he said.
Abergel explained, “We train every person to be an open book because the methodology is a little unique. This is not about me telling a long story to you; it’s about your curiosity guiding the conversation. What do you want to know the most about my topic?”
The Human Library is supported by private foundations and public donations, and all the “volumes” – those sharing their life stories – are volunteers.
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Another popular “book” is titled “Refugee.” “You think that person is so different than you, but within half an hour you think, Oh my God, I have a lot in common with that person,” said 37-year-old Noura Bitar, a political scientist from Syria, who came to Denmark with her Danish husband at the age of 20.
At the time she did not speak a word of Danish. That was in March of 2011, when pro-democracy protests against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad led to a violent government crackdown and civil war.
Bitar told us her treatment as a refugee in Denmark has varied over the years: “For some people, I am ‘the refugee.’ And I think I accepted that. Most of the people, especially in Copenhagen, were open about me, but I also heard a lot about, Eh, you don’t look like the typical refugee.”
What do they mean by that?”I am very obviously confident. I’m proud and I speak English, I speak fluent Danish, [and] I think there’s that stigma like, a refugee should always be sad. I shouldn’t be dressed nicely.”
“So, there’s a stigma about dressing well and speaking well?” I asked.
“And being highly-educated,” she replied.
In Denmark, immigration policies have become more restrictive, and Bitar is still awaiting Danish citizenship. Now, after getting divorced, she looks forward to her second marriage, but still struggles with her traumatic past, including dreams of Syria. “When I first came, I always dreamed that I was a bride walking and there are gunshots in my wedding dress,” she said. “It kind of, like, haunted me that I survived because I lost friends, I lost family members, and I always felt like I have that survival guilt even until today. So my PTSD was always, picture me as somebody who also got shot, even in my wedding dress. So, I don’t know, I’m still struggling – every time I dream about Syria now, am I gonna be sad?”
There are questions that these books will not answer. “Every book has their boundaries,” said Abergel. “If you go beyond the boundaries of what they’re comfortable talking about, they’ll know to say to you, ‘I’m sorry, but those pages have not been published yet.’”
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I had never met anyone from Greenland before, until I met human book Viva Olsen, age 55, an indigenous Greenlander who remembers a childhood in nature. “It’s been a very wonderful upbringing,” she told me, “because the first thing you get to do when you’re just an infant is to go out sailing and hunting. We hunt reindeer. We hunt polar bears, birds and fish and seals. Lots of seals.”
She had no trouble moving to Denmark in 2009, as Greenland is a self-governing territory that’s part of Denmark. Today Olsen is an aide to patients in psychiatric units.
I asked Olsen, “Before President Trump expressed his desire to own Greenland, did people there pay any attention, or much attention, to President Trump?”
“No,” she replied. “We’d always seen America as the land of milk and honey, and friendly, whose interest and presence in Greenland was benign.”
Olsen has happy memories, when she was six years old, of American soldiers stationed in her native country: “They were well-loved. Santa Claus would come by chopper, and he would bring us presents. And it was basically the American soldiers who’d chipped in and bought a lot of presents for the kids. That was really sweet.”
Ronni Abergel says they have already reached millions with The Human Library, and just maybe, are changing lives, reflecting the library’s goal to “unjudge” someone. “What happens when I’m not afraid of you, and you have nothing to fear from me, our quality of life goes up,” he said. “All of our life quality could go up if we were more understanding and accepting.
“We don’t have to be best friends, all of us here, but we need to try and understand each other,” Abergel said.
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Story produced by Jay Kernis. Editor: Ed Givnish.
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