2009年12月8日
Escape from Oneself
By C.P.Cavafy
Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrardsource from The City
You said:「I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried like something dead. How long can I let my mind moulder in this place? Wherever I turn, wherever I look, I see the black ruins of my life, here, where I’ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.」
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses. You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there’s no ship for you, there’s no road. Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner, you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
中文翻譯：Gill
你說：「我將會去遠方，去其它海岸，找一個更美好的城市。就算我再怎麼努力，結果總是註定失敗，而我的心被沮喪掩埋就像在躺在墳地裡。我怎麼可以繼續待在這裡腐爛呢？無論從哪個角度看了再看，我的人生盡是一片殘垣斷壁，這裡，就是讓我浪費了許多歲月，然後再害我完全毀滅的地方。」
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