Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

  • -- Susan Griffin 苏珊·格里芬

在说出一个秘密之前,人们常常能感觉到它在大气中的分量。

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These rooms are decorated in two days. It's all kept secret. The neighbors spend the night in each other's home. They don't see their finished room until the end of the second day. They have no say what happens in their own home.

这些房间两天就装修好了。都是保密的。邻居们在对方家里过夜。直到第二天结束,他们才看到他们完工的房间。他们对自己家里发生的事没有发言权。

The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.

皮革的触感、周围的缝线、上面浅浅的金字、缝线的触感、皮革的气味,这些都深深地打动了我,直到现在,我握着板球的时候,那种美依然让我心痛不已。

Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.

死亡是剥去所有不是你的东西。生命的秘密在于“死在你死之前”——然后发现根本没有死亡。

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

我喜欢文字。文字是地方、房间、遥远的空气、稀薄的热带。它们让我们感觉和想象我们不仅仅是我们的身体。