记忆理论--路易斯.格鲁克

很久很久以前，在我成为烦恼的艺术家之前，受渴望然而又没有能力
建立持久的忠诚的折磨，在这很久之前，我是一位光荣的统治者，统一所有
分裂的国家--所以我被算命者告知，她仔细观察着我的手掌。大事业，
她说，在你前面，或者在你身后；很难确定。又之，她说，区别是什么？
此刻你是一个握着一位算命者手的孩子。其他一切都是猜测和梦。


Long, long ago, before I was a tormented artist, afflicted with longing yet
incapable of forming durable attachments, long before this, I was a glorious
ruler uniting all of a divided country—so I was told by the fortune-teller
who examined my palm. Great things, she said, are ahead of you, or perhaps
behind you; it is difficult to be sure. And yet, she added, what is the difference?
Right now you are a child holding hands with a fortune-teller. All the
rest is hypothesis and dream.
"Theory of Memory" by Louise Glück, from Faithful and Virtuous Night. © Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. Reprinted with permission