In Memory of Coney Island w/ Patti Smith

 

"我們一直都很喜歡去科尼島。光是能坐地鐵到海邊，想想就夠神奇的了。" P.146

Artichokes

 "朝鮮薊是性感的傢伙。刺會傷你，葉可以剝掉，外層一片片剝去，就變得愈來愈輕盈，到最後，你終於摸到那顆柔軟的心"　

P.314  from 收藏食譜的人

Reading Notes：流浪集

"走路。走一陣，停下來，站定不動，抬頭看。再退後幾步，再抬頭；這時或許看得較清楚些。有時你必須走近幾步，踏上某個高臺，墊起腳，瞇起眼，如此才瞧個清楚。有時必須蹲下來，用手將某片樹葉移近來看。有時甚至必須臥倒，使你能取到你要的攝影畫面。p.245"

"走路，是人在宇宙最不受任何情境韁鎖、最得自求多福、最是踽踽尊貴的表現情狀。因能走，你就是天王老子。古時行者訪道；我人能走路流浪，不亦遠矣。" p.58"

這就是愛走路的原因之一
開車、騎車、坐車和走路所看到的光景絕對不一樣

雙腳走路，隨著自己的韻律

看到的景象似乎更細微

或許我就是無法一心多用的人

假如手上操控著方向盤還要注意旁邊的風景

我想其它用路人的安全是會讓人擔憂的

所以，繼續走下去吧

這是你唯一自由的方式

不需要等待、不需要承諾

這趟漫步只要拍到一張喜歡的影象

就心滿意足了

Reading Notes：我的耕食生活

我的耕食生活

原文作者：Kristin Kimball

譯者：何佩樺

“一個法國人告訴過我，食物是最大的財富。若是種得好，能使你覺得富裕得發狂，無論你擁有的是什麼。“ p.31

“我以為自己能夠了解這種疼痛，並學會接受，就像骨折行，你學體忍受遲遲不消的疼痛，那種能預報天氣變化的疼痛。“ p.38

“對馬克而言，食物是表達愛的方式  － 愛生活，愛他周圍的人 － 從種子大老遠來到餐桌上。...“ p.53

“....農場是一種表現形式，體現出農人的內在生活。農場透露出你是誰，無論你喜歡不喜歡。此即藝術。.....“ p.186

“....廚房裡的核心問題，將從「我想要什麼食材?」轉變成「有什麼可用食材？」待在廚房的時間 － 籌劃、準備、烹煮 － 將急遽增加。....“ p.188

The Party Never Ends

《給明日所有的聚會 All tomorrow's parties 》by 陳德政

兩個小時嗑完這本書，書裡提到紐約的每條路和歌曲都是再熟悉不過的，看了真是百感交集。

依循書中所提的歌從iPod裡選著聽，文字配著旋律，我似乎重新認識一座從沒見過的的NYC。

雖然有時會感到扼脕，住在NYC時沒到筆者中所說的盛地，但就在闔上書後，回憶一下當時的日子才醒悟，我也過的很精彩呀。

那些日子遇到的那些人、經歷的些事、走過的那些路，不論哪個片刻，一想起都會讓臉上抹上一層淡淡微笑，或是溼了眼眶。


海明威心裡的盛宴是巴黎，而我心中永遠的派對則是紐約。

The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship Reading Notes

by Andrea Israel & Nancy Garfinkel

"You can fool the human eyes but you can't fool the eye in the sky."  P. 47

"Sometimes people we love can't love us in ways that we wish to be loved. Not because we aren't worthy of that love, but for other reasons, beyond our control." P.128

"Isn't it kind of peculiar how everyone uses New Year's Eve as an excuse for getting drunk and saying, "This year will be different." Because everything stays the same. All the people who say "We shall overcome" don't even know what tyranny is all about. We're always living in fear and threat of wars and hatred." P.132

Fingersmith reading notes Part 2 (11- )

by Sarah Waters

" ... London! I thinks, with a lurch of my heart. But Richard studies me as I gaze, and smiles unpleasantly. 'Your natural home,' he says. ..." (P.325)
真的被Richard說中了，Maud本來就屬於London，而且是之後她看到的Lant Street.

"... The gardens are giving way to patches of weed; soon the weed gives way to ditches, the ditches to dark canals, to dreary wastes of road, to mounds of stones or soil or ashes. Still, Even ashes, I think, are a part of your freedom - and I feel, despite myself, the kindling in me of a sort of excitement... " (P326)
Ashes應該是London重要元素之一。因工業革命英國大量使用媒炭，所以London的濃霧裡總參雜ashes。所以一吸到參雜ashes的空氣 = 恭喜!你到London啦! 而對Maud來說象徵London的ashes當然也等於FREEDOM!

Fingersmith reading notes Part 2 (7-10)

by Sarah Waters

"The start, I think I know too well, It is the first of my mistakes." (P.187) (0816)
進入Part 2，和影集一樣是最不想看到的部份，因為Maud再也不是Sue想像的純真、無知。

"...'Girls' tears,' says Mr Huss. 'Quite colourless.' ' I think not. Truly, sir, I think not. I fancy them delicately tinged - perhaps pink, perhaps violet.' ' Perhaps,' says Mr Hawtrey, ' as depending on the emotion that has provoked them?' ' Exactly. You have hit it, Hawtrey, there. Violet tears, for a melancholy book; pink, for a gay. ...."
"... Unexpectedly, I think of Agnes. I think of Agens's mouth teasing a bead of blood from her pricked palm. ... " (P.219) (0820)

"... Then she blinks - remembers her training, I suppose - makes a hasty curtsey. .... She thinks me a fool. the idea upsets me, more than it should. I think, You have come to Briar to ruin me. I step to take her hand. Won't you colour, or tremble, or hide your eyes? ..." (P255)
可憐的Sue完全被看在眼裡呀!

"... She eats three eggs, spooning hem quickly, neatly into her mouth - not shuddering at the yieldin of the yolk, not thinking, as she swallows, of the closing of her own throat about the meat. She wipes her lips with her fingers, touches her tongue to some spot upon her knuckle; then swallows again.
You have come to Briar, I think, to swallow up me." (P259)
好強烈的字眼。蛋象徵Maud"純真、無知"，而Sue就是來Briar把看似單純的Maud一口一口吃掉、吞嚥。這段寫的太好了!!

" ... Once we talk of dancing. She rises and lifts her skirt, to show me a step. Then she pulls me to my feet, and turns and turns me; and i Feel, where she presses against me. the quickening beat of her heart - I feel it pass from her to me and become mine. " (P268)

" May a lady taste the fingers of her maid? she may, in my uncle's books. - The thought makes me colour. " (P270) (0821)

"... She has let one fall, and has not seen it; the two of hearts. I place my heel upon it, imagining one of the painted red hearts my own; and I grind it into the carpet." (P272)

"... You have been too long among your uncle's books. Girls love easily, there. That is the point of them. If they loved so in life, the books would not have to be written." (P291)
"Even my uncle's books are changed to me; and this is worse, this is worst of all. I have supposed them dead. Now the words - like the figures in the walls - start up, are filled with meaning...."(P295) (0822)
畢竟書是人寫出來的。Gentleman小看Maud & Sue了。

Fingersmith Reading notes (Part 1)

by Sarah Waters 

"...Her crinoline was made of watchspring. Her hair, inside its net, was fixed with half a pound of pins, and a comb of silver. Her petticoats and shimmy were calico. Underneath it all, however, she was soft and smooth as butter. Too soft, I thought her, I imagined her bruising. She was like a lobster without its shell...."(P.88) (0806)
Sarah老大，妳把Maud形容的太可口了!好想把Maud咬下去呀 (羞)

"Her breath was sweet. Her hands and arms were warm. Her face was smooth as ivory or alabaster, In a few weeks' time, I thought - if our plot worked - she would be lying in the bed of madhouse. Who would there be to be kind to her, then?" (P.93)

"... the more I said to myself, 'She's nothing to you', the harder I tried to pluck the idea of her out of my heart, the more she stayed there. All day I sat or walked with her, so full of the fate I was bringing her to I could hardly touch her or meet her gaze; and all night I lay with my back turned to her, the blanket over my ears to keep out her sighs. But in the hours in between, when she went to her uncle, I felt her - I felt her, through the walls of the house, like some blind crooks are said to be able to feel gold. It was as if there had come between us, a kind of thread. It pulled me to her, wherever she was. It was like -

It's like you love her, I thought." (P.144)

"....' what it is a wife must do, on her wedding - night!' " (P.146)

該死，晚上睡不著翻書來看，竟然看到這段，這下子整夜睡不著了。

"... I shivered. Still she held my gaze with hers. Then she spoke again. 'Come here,' she said." (P.169) (0816)
竟然在我等Mama's的Brunch最久的一次看到這段，一邊流口水一邊肚子餓，真為難我 (腦子裡都是畫面)