A father said to son when he gave him a watch that had been handed down through generations.
一位父親把傳家錶傳給兒子時,說的一些話
He said, “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire, which will fit your individual needs no better than it did mine or my father’s before me; I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you may forget it for a moment now and then and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.”
他說:這對錶是一切希望和慾望的陵墓,它會滿足你的個人需求,
就同他曾經滿足我和我父親的需求一樣,
我把錶給你,不是要讓你記住時間,
而是讓你忘掉時間,偶爾忘掉一次,
而不是費盡心機,想要對抗時間流逝。
這段話出自於William Faulkner的一部作品 " Sound and the Fury"
不覺得真的很有智慧的一段話嗎?