2017年12月16日星期六

縷縷輕煙的回憶

詩人貪睡, 這一睡不再起床了。沉醉在夢鄉裏, 不用再以鄉愁作題材譜新章。他與「母親」, 永久分離於異地。海峽相隔, 流水滾動着這修補不了的鴻隙。


隨手在書架撿出《記憶像鐵軌一樣長》, 余光中教授1987年付梓成書的, 我的是2001年第13印。我買書習慣簽名和寫購買年份, 這一本不是我買的, 老伴說是當年移民搜羅書籍時購買的, 我沒有翻過。我只買了《白玉苦瓜》和《青青邊愁》。「白玉苦瓜」一詩有這兩句:

一首歌, 詠生命曾經是瓜而苦
被永恆引渡, 成果而甘


甘和苦, 曖昧難分。很少小孩愛吃苦瓜, 我卻是自小吃慣苦瓜排骨湯, 所以不管甘苦, 照吃如儀, 長大後就只會嫌苦瓜不夠苦。詩人何其芳說: 「人生太苦了, 加點糖吧!」 有些人煮苦瓜會加糖, 我覺得怕苦不如別吃好了。大女兒近年也開始愛上苦瓜, 甚至用苦瓜乾來造曲奇。炎夏我也愛喝熱茶, 把一兩片苦丁泡在水中, 一口一口呷, 是苦是甘, 一切隨心境體會。苦丁又叫雲霧茶, 也叫一葉茶。之所以叫一葉茶, 就是因為泡一葉已足夠, 否則太苦。我通常是兩三葉的泡。

我是沒耐性看余教授散文的人, 教授的散文太長。我自己也是寫別種「散文」的高手, 交的論文功課一向鬆散雜亂, 散漫無章, 時常挨罵。現已忘記當年聽了教授甚麼講座, 大概是講現代詩吧。翻開「記憶像鐡軌一樣長」這一篇來看, 刻意泡一壺梨山高冷茶, 北望寶島, 憑吊記憶中詩人的音容。


鐵軌現代化了, 古舊的記憶, 雪泥鴻爪, 散渙零落。教授描繪香港火車電氣化之前的情景, 我不期然會心微笑。

…普通票的車廂裏, 不分三教九流, 男女老幼, 都雜雜沓沓地坐在一起, 有的默默看報, 有的怔怔望海, 有的瞌睡, 有的啃雞爪, 有的閒閒地聊天, 有的激昂慷慨地痛論國是, 但旁邊的主婦並不理會, 只顧得呵斥自己的孩子…

往日情懷, 浮現在縷縷煙波裏。青煙藍水, 宛約在其中。

26 則留言:

  1. 每當變幻時,便知時光去。

    詩詞什麼的統統不曉。只有老歌歌詞記得一兩句。。。

    以前中大有好多勁人。有冇被余光中或高志高教過?

    英皇書院出了本160周年記念冊
    https://books.mingpao.com/product/%E5%AE%98%E7%AB%8B%E8%8B%B1%E7%9A%87%E6%9B%B8%E9%99%A2%E5%89%B5%E6%A0%A1160%E9%80%B1%E5%B9%B4%E7%B4%80%E5%BF%B5%E6%96%87%E7%8D%BB%E5%9C%96%E7%89%87%E9%9B%86/

    Terry

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  2. Typo 喬志高。

    Terry

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    1. 喬志高不是我那年代的, 兩位都沒有教過我。

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    2. 也是.應該還早多十多年.

      Terry

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  3. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/matthew-petersen-senator-kennedy.html

    Matthew S. Petersen, a member of the Federal Election Commission, was one of five of President Trump’s judicial nominees being questioned by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday when Senator John N. Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, singled him out for an interrogation.

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    1. OMG. Trump should have nominated Maro, aka Yoga Bunny, instead. Peterson is as pathetic as Trump.

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    2. 馬狀呀~ 貴祖國正是用人之際,“國家終於有任務俾你”,快點回去支撐大局。

      https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/16/matthew-peterson-judges-robes

      For what it’s worth, the ABA unanimously rated another of Trump’s nominees as “not qualified” because he was a 36-year-old blogger with a strong ideological bent and no trial experience: Brett Talley. He was the fourth Trump nominee the ABA found to be devoid of judicial merit. Talley is also married to a White House lawyer, by some strange coincidence.

      On the other hand, Talley did blog about his total support – “financially, politically and intellectually” – for the National Rifle Association just one month after the massacre of elementary schoolchildren at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut. In his confirmation hearings, Talley refused to recuse himself from cases involving gun violence.

      Last month the Republican-led Senate judiciary committee confirmed him to a lifetime job as a judge in Alabama.

      His nomination was later withdrawn.

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  4. A blogger with no trial experience being nominated by Trump to be a judge... Well that says a lot about Trump and his supporters, surely...

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  5. 上網睇完佢份背景,除非佢個JD同clerkship 係買返黎,佢冇理由會俾人問到口啞啞

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    1. 35年的做狗 誰知道最后這樣的收場

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    2. 給機會PANNU表演如何求情。

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    3. 搵Peter Pannu打,有無搵錯呢?

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    4. 佢攞CSO但remand似係唔想判監,我估奶奶諗住佢受完就算。

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    5. 單看審訉過程的報導, 非戰之罪, 雖然我對Pannu無好感, 也不能諉過於他。

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    6. Remand for CSO? 有心玩佢啫。

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    7. 之前有幾個 case 都係 remand for CSO
      之後就話佢地已經有深刻教訓,輕判

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    8. 要朱經緯還柙,係唔係判坐監?

      https://hk.news.appledaily.com/local/realtime/article/20171218/57596300

      辯方求情指希望不要將被告還柙,透露被告於聖誕節生日,他不希望在獄中度生日。惟裁判官拒絕,將朱還柙至12月29日以等候社會服務令及背景報告。

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    9. 叫牠老母去荔枝角附近餐廳付錢買私家飯啦 哈哈哈哈哈哈

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    10. 兔兔,他朝君体也相同呀!

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    11. 兔兔講不定更慘 運回美國安葬ARLINGTON

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    12. 好似謝霆鋒單Perverting咁,抛吓老荔小懲大戒
      跟住拍CSO… 判得好!

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