Sunday, May 20, 2018

荊門後的象山

這是宋元學案留下的公案
據說黃宗羲(1610-1695)曾為此無眠

當然象山(1139-1192)
沒有改變南宋(1127-1279)的命運

(1957-)想起那個邊城
改變不了歷史的邊城

有點像清潔工
把台灣總督府掃乾淨

或我家牛排的洗碗工
洗不完的碗

然後來到
一個乾淨明亮的地方 (EH 1933)

"Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the
conversation with himself. 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.