以前在西雅圖念書的時候去過很多次Lakeview
Cemetery, 都是在Chinatown吃完午飯之後帶外地的朋友過去。因為地處幾步之外,又是李小龍父子的長眠之地,所以無論是國內來UW的訪問學者還是美國各地的南大校友,
無論消食還是瞻仰之顧,大家都對我飯後直接去墓地的提議表示贊同。 次數多了,我還真覺得自己是個「導遊」,
說這個地方你們自己單獨來的話很難找到, 因為墓園很大, 而且他們的墓碑背朝路面。
最近回西雅圖開會又去拜訪了一次,沿著視頻里的路線可以找到他們父子安葬之地。
每次我會虔誠的放置幾枚硬幣, 然後讀讀父子二人的碑文, 其中李國豪的這段節選自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…
碑文第一句說 「因為我們並不知道我們什麼時候會死, 所以我們會想當然覺得生命是一口永不枯竭的井」。。。 28歲的李國豪選的這段話本來是要印在自己兩周后的婚禮的請柬上, 誰又會想到這很快卻變成了他的碑文?
「How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless…」
「還能再看幾次滿月升起呢? 也許20次。 然而看起來彷彿還有無窮多次。。。」
誠然, 明天和意外我們並不知道哪個先來,所以請讓我們學會珍惜現在。