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[阅读] 四月一个晴朗的早晨,遇见一个百分之百的女孩

... 发表于 2006-12-10 15:31  ... 15586 次点击

  四月一个晴朗的早晨,我在原宿后街同一个百分之百的女孩擦肩而过。  

  不讳地说,女孩算不得怎么漂亮,并无吸引人之处,衣着也不出众,脑后的头发执着地带有睡觉挤压的痕迹。年龄也已不小了---应该快有30了。严格地说来,恐怕很难称之为女孩。然而,相距50米开外我便一眼看出:对于我来说,她是个百分之百的女孩。从看见她身姿的那一瞬间,我的胸口便如发生地鸣一般的震颤,口中如沙漠干得沙沙作响。  

  或许你也有你的理想女孩。例如喜欢足颈细弱的女孩,毕竟眼睛大的女孩,十指绝对好看的女孩,或不明所以地迷上慢慢花时间进食的女孩。我当然有自己的偏爱。在饭店时就曾看邻桌一个女孩的鼻形看得发呆。  

  但要明确勾勒百分之百的女孩形象,任何人都无法做到。我就绝对想不起她长有怎样的鼻子。甚至是否有鼻子都已记不真切,现在我所能记的,只有她并非十分漂亮这一点。事情也真是不可思议。  

  “昨天在路上同一个百分之百的女孩擦肩而过。”我对一个人说。  

  “唔,”他应道,“人可漂亮?”  

  “不,不是说这个。”  

  “那,是合你口味那种类型喽?”  

  “记不得了。眼睛什么样啦,胸部是大是小啦,统统忘得一干二净。”  

  “莫名其妙啊!”  

  “是莫名其妙。”  

  “那么,”他显得兴味索然,“你做什么了?搭话了?还是跟踪了?”  

  “什么都没有做。”我说,“仅仅是擦肩而过。”  

  她由东往西走,我从西向东去,在四月里一个神清气爽的早晨。  

  我想和她说话,哪怕30分钟也好。想打听她的身世,也想全盘托出自己的身世。而更重要的,是想弄清导致1981年4月一个晴朗的早晨我们在原宿后街擦肩而过这一命运的原委。里面肯定充满和平时代的古老机器般温馨的秘密。  

  如此谈罢,我们可以找地方吃午饭,看伍迪。爱伦的影片,再顺路到宾馆里的酒吧喝鸡尾酒什么的。弄得好,喝完说不定能同她睡上一觉。  

  可能性在扣击我的心扉。  

  我和她之间的距离以近至十五六米了。  

  问题是,我到底该如何向她搭话呢?  

  “你好!和我说说话可以吗?哪怕30分钟也好。”  

  过于傻气,简直象劝人加入保险。  

  “请问,这一带有24小时营业的洗衣店吗?”  

  这也同样傻里傻气。何况我岂非连洗衣袋都没带!有谁能相信我的道白呢?  

  也许开门见山好些。“你好!你对我可是百分之百的女孩哟!”  

  不,不成,她恐怕不会相信我的表白。纵然相信,也未必愿同我说什么话。她可能这样说:即便我对你是百分之百的女孩,你对我可不是百分之百的男人,抱歉!而这是大有可能的。假如陷入这般境地,我肯定全然不知所措。这一打击说不定使我一蹶不振。我已32岁,所谓上年纪归根结底便是这么一回事。  

  我是在花店门前和她擦肩而过的,那暖暖的小小的气块儿触到我的肌肤。柏油路面洒了水,周围荡漾着玫瑰花香。连向她打声招呼我都未能做到。她身穿白毛衣,右手拿一个尚未贴邮票的四方信封。她给谁写了封信。那般睡眼惺忪,说不定整整写了一个晚上。那四方信封里有可能装有她的全部秘密。  

  走几步回头时,她的身影早已消失在人群中。  

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  当然,今天我已完全清楚当时应怎样向她搭话。但不管怎么说,那道白实在太长,我笃定表达不好――就是这样,我所想到的每每不够实用。  

  总之,道白自“很久很久以前”开始,而以“你不觉得这是个忧伤的故事吗”结束。  

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  很久很久以前,有个地方有一个少男和一个少女。少男18,少女16。少男算不得英俊,少女也不怎么漂亮,无非随处可见的孤独而平常的少男少女。但两人一直坚信世上某个地方一定存在百分之百适合自己的少女和少男。是的,两人相信奇迹,而奇迹果真发生了。  

  一天两人在街头不期而遇。  

  “真巧!我一直在寻找你。也许你不相信,你对我是百分之百的男孩。从头到脚跟我想象的一模一样。简直是在做梦。‘  

  两人坐在公园长椅上,手拉手,百谈不厌。两人已不再孤独。百分之百需求对方,百分之百已被对方需求。而百分之百需求对方和百分之百地被对方需求是何等美妙的事情啊!这已是宇宙奇迹!  

  但两人心中掠过一个小小的,的确小而又小的疑虑:梦想如此轻易成真是否就是好事?  

  交谈突然中断时,少男这样说道:  

  “我说,再尝试一次吧!如果我们两人真是一对百分之百的恋人的话,肯定还会有一天在哪里相遇。下次相遇时如果仍觉得对方百分之百,就马上在那里结婚,好么?  

  “好的。”少女回答。  

  于是两人分开,各奔东西。  

  然而说实在话,根本没有必要尝试,纯属多此一举。为什么呢?因为两人的的确确是一对百分之百的恋人,因为那是奇迹般的邂逅。但两人过于年轻,没办法知道这许多。于是无情的命运开始捉弄两人。  

  一年冬天,两人都染上了那年肆虐的恶性流感。在死亡线徘徊几个星期后,过去的记忆丧失殆尽。事情也真是离奇。当两人睁眼醒来时,脑袋里犹如d。h劳伦斯少年时代的贮币盒一样空空如也。  

  但这对青年男女毕竟聪颖豁达且极有毅力,经过不懈努力,终于再度获得了新的知识新的情感,胜任愉快地重返社会生活。啊,我的上帝!这两人真是无可挑剔!他们完全能够换乘地铁,能够在邮局寄交快信了。并且分别体验了百分之七十五和百分之八十五的恋爱。  

  如此一来二去,少男32,少女31岁了。时光以惊人的速度流逝。  

  四月一个晴朗的早晨,少男为喝折价早咖啡沿原宿后街由西向东走,少女为买快信邮票沿同一条街由东向西去,两人恰在路中间失之交臂。失却的记忆的微光刹那间照亮两颗心。两人胸口陡然悸颤,并且得知:  

  她对我是百分之百的女孩。  

  他对我是百分之百的男孩。  

  然而两人记忆的烛光委实过于微弱,两人的话语也不似十四年前那般清晰。结果连句话也没说便擦身而过,径直消失在人群中,永远永远。  

  你不觉得这是个忧伤的故事吗?  

  是的,我本该这样向她搭话。

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#1 - 2006-12-10 16:59
苹果 地球
这是个忧伤的故事
#2 - 2007-12-2 00:40
剪烛 Sputnik 1
呵呵,英文版,比想象中要译得好


On seeing the 100% perfect girl one beautiful April morning


One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo's fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.

Tell you the truth, she's not that good-looking. She doesn't stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special. The back of her hair is still bent out of shape from sleep. She isn't young, either - must be near thirty, not even close to a "girl," properly speaking. But still, I know from fifty yards away: She's the 100% perfect girl for me. The moment I see her, there's a rumbling in my chest, and my mouth is as dry as a desert.

Maybe you have your own particular favorite type of girl - one with slim ankles, say, or big eyes, or graceful fingers, or you're drawn for no good reason to girls who take their time with every meal. I have my own preferences, of course. Sometimes in a restaurant I'll catch myself staring at the girl at the next table to mine because I like the shape of her nose.

But no one can insist that his 100% perfect girl correspond to some preconceived type. Much as I like noses, I can't recall the shape of hers - or even if she had one. All I can remember for sure is that she was no great beauty. It's weird.

"Yesterday on the street I passed the 100% girl," I tell someone.

"Yeah?" he says. "Good-looking?"

"Not really."

"Your favorite type, then?"

"I don't know. I can't seem to remember anything about her - the shape of her eyes or the size of her breasts."

"Strange."

"Yeah. Strange."

"So anyhow," he says, already bored, "what did you do? Talk to her? Follow her?"

"Nah. Just passed her on the street."

She's walking east to west, and I west to east. It's a really nice April morning.

Wish I could talk to her. Half an hour would be plenty: just ask her about herself, tell her about myself, and - what I'd really like to do - explain to her the complexities of fate that have led to our passing each other on a side street in Harajuku on a beautiful April morning in 1981. This was something sure to be crammed full of warm secrets, like an antique clock build when peace filled the world.

After talking, we'd have lunch somewhere, maybe see a Woody Allen movie, stop by a hotel bar for cocktails. With any kind of luck, we might end up in bed.

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart.

Now the distance between us has narrowed to fifteen yards.

How can I approach her? What should I say?

"Good morning, miss. Do you think you could spare half an hour for a little conversation?"

Ridiculous. I'd sound like an insurance salesman.

"Pardon me, but would you happen to know if there is an all-night cleaners in the neighborhood?"

No, this is just as ridiculous. I'm not carrying any laundry, for one thing. Who's going to buy a line like that?

Maybe the simple truth would do. "Good morning. You are the 100% perfect girl for me."

No, she wouldn't believe it. Or even if she did, she might not want to talk to me. Sorry, she could say, I might be the 100% perfect girl for you, but you're not the 100% boy for me. It could happen. And if I found myself in that situation, I'd probably go to pieces. I'd never recover from the shock. I'm thirty-two, and that's what growing older is all about.

We pass in front of a flower shop. A small, warm air mass touches my skin. The asphalt is damp, and I catch the scent of roses. I can't bring myself to speak to her. She wears a white sweater, and in her right hand she holds a crisp white envelope lacking only a stamp. So: She's written somebody a letter, maybe spent the whole night writing, to judge from the sleepy look in her eyes. The envelope could contain every secret she's ever had.

I take a few more strides and turn: She's lost in the crowd.



Now, of course, I know exactly what I should have said to her. It would have been a long speech, though, far too long for me to have delivered it properly. The ideas I come up with are never very practical.

Oh, well. It would have started "Once upon a time" and ended "A sad story, don't you think?"



Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beautiful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened.

One day the two came upon each other on the corner of a street.

"This is amazing," he said. "I've been looking for you all my life. You may not believe this, but you're the 100% perfect girl for me."

"And you," she said to him, "are the 100% perfect boy for me, exactly as I'd pictured you in every detail. It's like a dream."

They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

As they sat and talked, however, a tiny, tiny sliver of doubt took root in their hearts: Was it really all right for one's dreams to come true so easily?

And so, when there came a momentary lull in their conversation, the boy said to the girl, "Let's test ourselves - just once. If we really are each other's 100% perfect lovers, then sometime, somewhere, we will meet again without fail. And when that happens, and we know that we are the 100% perfect ones, we'll marry then and there. What do you think?"

"Yes," she said, "that is exactly what we should do."

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west.

The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

One winter, both the boy and the girl came down with the season's terrible influenza, and after drifting for weeks between life and death they lost all memory of their earlier years. When they awoke, their heads were as empty as the young D. H. Lawrence's piggy bank.

They were two bright, determined young people, however, and through their unremitting efforts they were able to acquire once again the knowledge and feeling that qualified them to return as full-fledged members of society. Heaven be praised, they became truly upstanding citizens who knew how to transfer from one subway line to another, who were fully capable of sending a special-delivery letter at the post office. Indeed, they even experienced love again, sometimes as much as 75% or even 85% love.

Time passed with shocking swiftness, and soon the boy was thirty-two, the girl thirty.

One beautiful April morning, in search of a cup of coffee to start the day, the boy was walking from west to east, while the girl, intending to send a special-delivery letter, was walking from east to west, but along the same narrow street in the Harajuku neighborhood of Tokyo. They passed each other in the very center of the street. The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts. Each felt a rumbling in their chest. And they knew:

She is the 100% perfect girl for me.

He is the 100% perfect boy for me.

But the glow of their memories was far too weak, and their thoughts no longer had the clarity of fouteen years earlier. Without a word, they passed each other, disappearing into the crowd. Forever.

A sad story, don't you think?



Yes, that's it, that is what I should have said to her.
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