雅典鏡外場N° 9 - Hors-champ sur Athènes N°9

【橘子】

兩個旅人，C住在德國，L住在法國，她們是在蘇格蘭旅行時認識的一對女朋友。C看起來內向安靜，L看起來活潑開朗，個性似乎很不一樣。

當然，實情，也許正好相反。人物的肌理，還是要看畫筆是怎樣，有時，會很難準確描繪。

不過，故事卻很簡單：曾經有一袋十多個，一個人吃不好玩也嫌太多的橘子，在C與L之間，扮演了即興討喜的角色。

友誼，常常很奇妙地，就發生了。C和L成為密友，就是因為橘子。

因為橘子，離別後，C寫了好多信給L， 跟她細說許多與感情有關的心事，讓不是很敏感的L，感到非常珍惜和寶愛。


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雅典第三天，在讓人一見鐘情的Monastiraki廣場，我也買了一袋一公斤的橘子 。

一個人，靜靜地，坐在木板設計，休息用的的現代椅凳上，全心全意，觀賞城市最熱鬧的景點，並且，快樂地吃著橘子。

山頂的古衞城，是一個很會說故事的哲人，以他令人神魂顛倒的誘人神采，和跳蚤市場，和變成博物館的清真寺，和地鐵站，和水果攤，和舊土耳其的bazar商店，和色彩華麗的東正教教堂，以及，和有民謠演唱的烤肉餐廳，等等等等，一一地，竊竊私語。

人群與夜色中，我一邊吃著鮮美可口的橘子，一邊仔細偷聽著他們各自之間的秘密對話。

而，越偷聽越覺得，⋯⋯哇！不只是哲人啊，古衛城，事實上是一位同時擁有好多位情人的情愛聖手。

12月初，夜晚氣溫接近20度C的Monastiraki廣場，
我一口氣大概吃了七八個橘子有吧！
遠方山上的雅典古衛城＋古清真寺＋地鐵站＋人群⋯⋯
這個活潑的廣場，是一個令人靈感充滿的沈思好所在。

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Dear C,

You must be on the way to Germany now. And soon, you'll see DP in a couple of days. Wow, so incredible, in such a romantic situation, you'll revisit the charming city, Edinburgh.

Love is sweet as well as bitter, I could imagine your struggle. To be or not to be, it's often very ambiguous and unclear for a wise vision. Nevertheless, I trust your choice on which color you would take for your own painting. Go ahead, and be creative.

Actually, me too, I've recently suffered from an affective unpleasantness with a very precious friend, so you know, even though I'm a married woman, I forever believe that Love is the very stuff for the inspiration of our life.

On previous Wednesday, a man in the street, asked me for the time, and left, then went back to propose if he could offer me a drink. I said yes and told him at the same time that I'm married. It was funny for such an encounter, I think. Because in the bar, some of his friends seemed so happy for him to have a lady with whom he might have a nice relationship or something. But finally, the husband of this lady has joined her. Haha⋯

I ever consider A+B=C, but there are magically other possibilities to the result, no?

This French gentleman whose name is Jean-Luc, as if I were a psychotherapist, told me about his divorce, the sudden dead of his elder brother, and the suicide of his best friend, but after all of these tragedies of the past, he wanted to be in love.....you know how I was touched....

Bon courage

Talk to you later and see you.


L

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Dear C,

It's really very cold these days, but don't worry, I survive very well.

And you? How are you after leaving New Caledonia? I suppose that in Germany it snows everyday, doesn't it ?

Luckily, the first day when the snow froze violently France, I were on my trip to Athens. On December 1st to 8th, not any footprint of the cold winter there, I lived with myself in a small apartment, and enjoyed a lot the city, under 18°C - 22°C.

I eagerly, desire to visit you and DP in Edinburgh in the coming days, but bad news occurred that now R-air has ended the flight from Marseille where I live nearby (one hundred km to my village), so I have to take the plane from Paris, it's not so convenient.

Keep in touch, anyway. In January, I come up with a good idea to go back to Athens. ......So we could meet one another in Spring, or maybe earlier.

Take care.


L

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跳蚤市場

Monastiraki廣場：遠處是Acropolis - 雅典古衛城；
左上角是已經變成博物館的清真寺。

這個角度可以看到地鐵站牌

地鐵站前的水果攤：鮮美可口的橘子，一公斤才一塊歐元。

面向Acropolis，我坐在木凳上吃很多橘子，寫字寫很久，看人看景也看很久。