杨潇《重走:在公路、河流和驿道上寻找西南联大》
原広司,吉見俊哉 《このとき、夜のはずれで、サイレンが鳴った》(“就在此时,黑夜将尽,警笛响起”,这句话来源加缪《局外人》)
It is said that before entering the sea
a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled,
from the peaks of the mountains,
the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
she sees an ocean so vast,
that to enter
there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk
of entering the ocean
because only then will fear disappear,
because that’s where the river will know
it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,
but of becoming the ocean.