【班門弄斧、越俎代庖】西西 《繞著一棵樹》試譯

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《繞著一棵樹》

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繞著一棵樹

繞圈子

是哲學的遊戲

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起步時

你走在前

我走在後

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走著走著

怎麼怎麼

是我在前

你走在後

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奇異的位置

游移不定

你能告訴我原因麼？

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我在車站等巴士

車子來了，人人爭先

把我擠到最後

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我去示威

防暴警察來了

我被推到最前面

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我廊樓上

遇上前拉斐爾畫派

到了樓下，碰見後現代

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走在我前面的人

自稱後後青年

背後那人說是前前衛

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也許這正是

一棵樹

從不走路的原因

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繞著一棵樹

繞圈子

令我頭暈

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《Around a Tree》

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Around a tree

revolving

is the game of philosophy

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When we set out

You walk in the front

I walk behind

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As we walk and walk

not knowing how

I am in the front

You walk behind

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Bizarre positions

shifting and indefinite

can you tell me why?

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I am waiting for the bus at the bus stop

The vehicle comes, everyone strives ahead

squeezing me to the back

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I go for a demonstration

The riot squad come

I am pushed to the front

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I am in a gallery, upstairs

come across the Pre-Rahaelites

downstairs, run into the postmodernist

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The one walking in front of me

calls himself the post-post youth

The one behind says he's the avant-avant-garde

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Perhaps that's why

a tree

never walks.

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Around a tree

revolving

makes me dizzy