英語溫馨夜讀I PART4 10 Moved By The Moon 為月亮而感動

[00:00.65]Moved By The Moon 為月亮而感動 [00:06.67]Driving to a friend’s house on a recent evening, [00:10.39]I was awe-struck by the sight of the full moon rising just above Manila rooftops, [00:17.06]huge and swollen, yellow through the dust and smoke of the city. [00:21.99]I stopped to watch it for a few moments, [00:24.89]reflecting on what a pity it was that most city dwellers? [00:29.54]Myself included? Usually miss sights like this [00:33.06]because we spend most of our lives indoors. [00:36.96]My friend had also seen it. [00:39.79]He grew up living in a forest in Europe, and the moon meant a lot to him then. [00:45.93]It had touched many aspects of his life, [00:48.76]including those concerning his ordinary daily life. [00:52.82]For example, when he had to make sure that [00:55.77]he had his torch with him when he was outside in the evening, [00:59.17]or when the moon was due to rise late or was at its newest, [01:03.76]a bright, distant sliver of white like a chink of light below a door in the sky. [01:09.79]I know the feeling. Last December I took my seven-year-old daughter [01:14.96]to the mountainous jungle of northern India with some friends. [01:18.86]We stayed in a forest rest-house with no electricity or running hot water. [01:24.56]Our group had campfires outside every night, [01:28.29]and indoors when it was too cold outside. [01:31.56]The moon grew to its fullest during our trip. [01:35.06]At Binsar, 7 500 feet up in the Kumaon hills, [01:40.53]I can remember going out at 10 p.m. [01:43.29]and seeing the great Manda Devil Mountain like a ghost on the horizon, [01:48.62]gleaming white in the moonlight and flanked by Trishul, [01:52.67]the mountain considered holy by Hindus. [01:55.51]Between me and the high mountains lay three or four valleys. [02:00.55]Not a light shone in them and not a sound could be heard. [02:05.14]It was one of the quietest places I have ever known, a bottomless well of silence. [02:11.77]And above me was the full moon. [02:14.62]Today our lives are defined by glass, concrete, metal, plastic and fibre-glass. [02:22.06]We eat and breathe things our bodies were not designed to process. [02:26.66]We have televisions, Xerox machines, cell phones, pagers, electricity, [02:32.56]heaters and ovens and air-conditioners, cars, computers and remote controls. [02:38.26]Struggling through traffic that evening in Manila at the end of a tiring day, [02:42.96]most of it spent indoors, I thought: [02:45.91]before long, I would like to live in a small cottage in the Himalayas. [02:51.16]There I will grow vegetables and read books and walk in the mountains. [02:56.09]And perhaps write, but not in anger. [02:59.37]I may grow old there, [03:01.20]and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled and measure out my life in coffee spoons. [03:06.70]But I will be able to walk outside on a cold silent night and touch the moon.

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