掘墓人
The Grave-digger
有一次,我正在埋葬死掉的自我时,掘墓人走了过来,对我说:“所有来这里埋葬的人里,我喜欢你这种独自前来的人。”
我说:“这让我非常高兴,但你为什么喜欢我呢?”
“因为,”他说,“他们都是哭着来又哭着去,而你是笑着来笑着去的。”
Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said to me, “Of all those who come here to bury, you alone I like.”
Said I, “You please me exceedingly, but why do you like me?”
“Because, ” said he, “They come weeping and go weeping—you only come laughing and go laughing.”