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我縮在誠品敦南的一個角落讀書。手裡攤開的書是Robert James Waller的「無盡鄉間路」（A Thousand Country Roads），講述著Robert Kincaid和 Francesca Johnson在「麥迪遜之橋」相遇分手之後的故事。吸引我的也許是他在講Robert，一個攝影家，浪跡天涯，親身體驗人生，以照片呈現他所看到的世界的角度與所說的話語，讓我想到一位認識的朋友的人生也是如此高潮迭起，還有自己暗許的一個承諾。一聯想起來，許多本就活躍在心中的面孔一一浮現，提醒著我許多未記錄的心情故事。於是，在仰頭看見窗外白雲反光的一剎那，想開始經營這個部落格。這是練習寫作，是給自己的記錄，從兩年前的故事，走到今日並將會繼續。我只悄悄地企盼，在這些瑣碎的片段中，有某一點能接觸到將要閱讀的你的心情－就像這本書跟我的互應一般。

2006.07.12 Eslite Café


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Translation

I adapted myself into a corner in Eslite Bookstore. The book in my hand is Robert James Waller’s A Thousand Country Roads, which talks about the sequent stories of Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson from Madison River. The point that attracts me is perhaps the way he talks about Robert, as a photographer, wanderer, experiencing life in person and furthermore the photos he takes along the way represent his peculiar angle of seeing the world and his words. It reminds me of an excellent friend’s exciting life as well as a hidden promise that I've made to myself. Many faces that lived in my heart emerged once I recalled and those unrecorded stories came to alive. Hence, at the moment that I see the glare of the white clouds outside of the window, I’m eager to start writing this blog. These are my writing practices, from two years ago up to present and ongoing, and also the record for myself. I merely hold a secret wish, that in these fragments of writing, there would be a tiny point which would be able to touch you—like what I involved and interacted with this book.