Tangier and Quanzhou are joined by one man’s feet. On Ibn Battuta’s road, the gold gate of Sijilmasa, and the Chinese green tea in every Moroccan glass.
中文:丹吉尔与泉州,由一个人的双脚连在一起。伊本·白图泰的旅途、西吉尔马萨的黄金之门,以及每一杯摩洛哥茶里的中国绿茶。
Author: phaedrasfables
桃花源与白鸽之城 Peach Blossom Spring and the City White as a Dove: Chaos Magic – Azad.
A fifteenth-century treasure manual describes a white city with a bird carved on its gate. A fifth-century Chinese poet describes a valley you can enter only once. In a Tangier patio, a sparrow lands on the page.
中文:一本十五世纪的寻宝手册记载着一座白鸽般洁白的城市,城门上刻着一只鸟。一位五世纪的中国诗人写下一处只能进入一次的山谷。丹吉尔的庭院里,一只麻雀落在了书页上。
话里有话:说了,不等于告诉 · Said Is Not the Same as Told: Chaos Magic – Azad.
她醒来时指尖沾满金色。几天前在麦地那老城里,有人对她说过一句话,她以为那只是诗。
She wakes with gold on her fingertips. Days ago in the medina someone said something to her, and she thought it was only poetry.
望夫石:悲伤有重量 · Grief Has Mass: Chaos Magic – Azad.
作家在睡梦中坠入自己多年前写下的一幕,以角色的身体重新经历它。悲伤无处可去,于是大地回应了她。
The writer falls asleep and lands inside a scene she wrote years ago, living it again in her character’s body. Her grief has nowhere to go, so the earth answers.
前人栽树:写给未来的专栏 · Planting Trees for Someone Else’s Shade: Quantumm Gravity – Azad.
她走得太远,身体终于撑不住了。在丹吉尔的旅馆房间里,两个互不信任的男人守在她床边;在英国,整片森林都在为她制造噪音。
She reached too far, and her body gave out. In a Tangier hotel room, two men who don’t trust each other keep watch at her bed. In England, a whole forest makes noise to cover her.
血脉认得血脉 · Blood Knows Blood: Quantum Gravity – Azad.
难民营里,一位母亲和她的七个女儿,有着同一双不可能的蓝眼睛。有些血脉不靠族谱相认,只靠一眼。
In a refugee camp, a mother and her seven daughters share the same impossible blue eyes. Some bloodlines need no genealogy to be recognised. Only a glance.
疯狂是你先写的 · You Wrote Mad First: Quantum Gravity – Azad.
在丹吉尔的街头,在银黑色的翅膀里,一位大天使对创造了他的作家说:”疯狂是你先写的。”
In a Tangier street, inside silver-black wings, an archangel tells the writer who made him: “You wrote mad first.”
我写下的家族 · The Family I Wrote: Quantum Gravity – Azad.
在丹吉尔的人潮中,一位大天使用翅膀把作家藏起来,要她解释:那些在世界之间失散的女儿,究竟是谁?
In the crowds of Tangier, an archangel hides the writer under his wings and asks her to explain the daughters lost between worlds.
浑水摸鱼:英国庄园里的第二十计: The Twentieth Stratagem at an English Manor
庄园门口来了穿错鞋的陌生男人,集市上有人打听”庄园的女主人”。在奥弗顿,面对窥探,答案不是躲藏,而是把水搅浑。
Men in the wrong shoes at the gate. Strangers at the market asking about the lady of the manor. At Overton, the answer to being watched is not to hide. It is to muddy the water.
大隐隐于市:丹吉尔的消失术 · Hidden in the Market: Tangier’s Art of Vanishing
Meanwhile; in Tangiers hiding from tracking eyes envolves Quantum Mechanics. On a crowded Tangier street, Mikael hides the writer inside his wings. Beyond them, watchers search. Within, he asks who she is to the woman she created. Quantum Gravity – Azad.
