纵横高远2019-11-22 19:51:41

以前在西雅图的时候去过很多次Lakeview Cemetery, 都是在Chinatown吃完午饭之后带外地的朋友过去。因为地处几步之外,又是李小龙父子的长眠之地, 所以无论是国内来UW的访问学者还是美国各地的南大校友, 无论消食还是瞻仰之顾,大家都对我饭后直接去墓地 的提议表示赞同。 次数多了, 我还真觉得自己是个“导游”, 说这个地方你们自己单独来的话很难找到, 因为墓园很大, 而且他们的墓碑背朝路面。

最近又去了一次,沿着视频里的路线可以找到他们父子安葬之地。

每次我会虔诚的放置几枚硬币, 然后读读父子二人的碑文, 其中李国豪的这段节选自Paul Bowle的The Sheltering Sky 。

Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, an afternoon that is so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four, or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…

碑文第一句说的是 “因为我们并不知道我们什么时候会死, 所以我们会想当然觉得生命是一口永不枯竭的井”。。。 28岁的李国豪选的这段话本来是要印在自己两周后的婚礼的请柬上, 谁又会想到这很快却变成了他的碑文?

“How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…”

“还能再看几次满月升起呢? 也许20次。 然而看起来都仿佛还有无穷多次。。。”

 

诚然, 明天和意外, 我们并不知道哪个先来,所以,请让我们学会 珍惜现在。

 




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