※ 引述《Hanedas (南瓜塔塔麋)》之銘言：
: 總有那麼些人，
: 晚上不怎麼玩遊戲，
: 又沒看書做事，
: 也沒談戀愛，還沒人聊天，
: 但卻總是在熬夜。
: 我剛剛看到這段文字
: 開始問自己…………在幹嘛？
: 那你們呢？
在這邊跟大家推薦一篇文章
海明威的「A Clean, Well-Lighted Place」
應該可以翻成一個乾淨、明亮的地方吧？
兩個服務員，一個老人
有些人就是喜歡熬夜，待在一個乾淨、明亮的咖啡廳
不為什麼
沒有特別的原因
就像有些人想自殺
但也不知道為什麼
Nada.
老人嘗試過自殺，但未遂
"What did he want to kill himself for?"
"How should I know."
"How did he do it?"
"He hung himself with a rope."
"Who cut him down?"
"His niece."
"Why did they do it?"
"Fear for his soul."
兩人在老人離開後
年輕的服務生趕著回家，為了老婆
年長的服務生——則並不如此
"You have youth, confidence, and a job," the older waiter said.
"You have everything."
"And what do you lack?"
"Everything but work."
"You have everything I have."
"No. I have never had confidence and I am not young."
"Come on. Stop talking nonsense and lock up."
"I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe, " the older waiter said.
"With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light
for the night."
"I want to go home and into bed."
"We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to
go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those
things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there
may be some one who needs the cafe."
It was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and
pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you
stand before a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these
hours. What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread. It was a nothing that he
knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only
that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived
in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues
nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy
will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and
nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us
from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He
smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine.
最後對老服務員的敘述
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After
all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia. Many must have it.
很精緻的一篇短篇小說
深夜裡既然不睡，
那就讀篇海明威吧。

好

XD

晚安

想睡了

很會

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