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PASSAGE EIGHTY-SIX

Unspoken conversation

1.Fifteen years ago, I took a summer vacation in Lecce in southern Italy.   

2.After climbing up a hill for a panoramic view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

3.Unfortunately, just as I took out my camera, a woman approached from behind, and planted herself right in front of my view.   

4.Like me, this woman was here to stop, sigh and appreciate the view.

5.Patient as I was, after about 15 minutes, my camera scanning the sun and reviewing the shot I would eventually take, I grew frustrated.   

6.Was it too much to ask her to move so I could take just one picture of the landscape? Sure, I could have asked her, but something prevented me from doing so.   

7.She seemed so content in her observation.I didn’t want to mess with that. Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored.   

8.The woman was still there. I decided to take the photo anyway. And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.   

9.The landscape, beautiful on its own, somehow comes to life and breathes because this woman is engaging with it.

10.This photo, with the unique beauty that unfolded before me and that woman who “ruined” it, now hangs on a wall in my bedroom.   

11.What would she think if she knew that her figure is captured and frozen on some stranger’s bedroom wall?   

12.A bedroom, after all, is a very private space, in which some woman I don’t even know has been immortalized.

13.In some ways, she lives in my house. Perhaps we all live in each others’ spaces.   

14.Perhaps this is what photos are for: to remind us that we all appreciate beauty, that we all share a common desire for pleasure, for connection, for something that is greater than us.

15.That photo is a reminder, a captured moment, an unspoken conversation between two women, separated only by a thin square of glass.

第八十六篇

无声的对话

1.15年前，我在意大利南部的莱切度过了一个暑假。

2.爬上一座小山，欣赏到蓝色的大海、白色的建筑和绿色的橄榄树的全景后，我停下来喘了口气，然后摆好姿势，拍下了这张全景的最佳照片。

3.不幸的是，就在我拿出相机的时候，一个女人从后面走过来，正好挡住了我的视线。

4.和我一样，这位女士来这里是为了停下来，叹气，欣赏风景。

5.虽然我很有耐心，但大约15分钟后，我的相机扫描着太阳，回顾着我最终要拍的照片，我变得沮丧起来。

6.让她移动一下，让我只拍一张风景照，是不是太过分了?当然，我本可以问她的，但有些事使我不能这样做。

7.她似乎对自己的观察很满意。我不想搞砸了。又过了15分钟，我开始感到无聊。

8.那个女人还在那儿。我还是决定拍下这张照片。现在当我看着它的时候，我觉得她在照片中的存在使这张照片变得有趣。

9.风景本身就很美，不知怎的，因为这个女人的参与，风景变得有了生命和气息。

10.这张照片，展现在我和那个“毁掉”它的女人面前的独特之美，现在挂在我卧室的墙上。

11.如果她知道自己的身影被某个陌生人的卧室墙上捕捉并定格，她会怎么想?

12.毕竟，卧室是一个非常私密的空间，一个我甚至不认识的女人在这里永生。

13.在某些方面，她就像我的房子一样。也许我们都生活在彼此的空间里。

14.也许这就是照片的意义所在:提醒我们都欣赏美，我们都有一个共同的欲望，那就是追求快乐，追求联系，追求比我们更伟大的东西。

15.那张照片是一个提醒，是一个被捕捉到的时刻，是两个女人之间无声的对话，她们之间只隔着一块薄薄的方形玻璃。