海地的市集 不知道什麼原因,廢墟的顏色總是和當地居民的膚色十分相近。靠海的廣場上有個市集,在晨間的強烈陽光下散發出一股異臭。黑人和蒼蠅擠滿了整個市集,馬路的一側停著一輛輛貨車,它們從四面八方帶來了物產和賣家。我在海濱公園可可椰子樹下悠閒散步時,經常有光著腳丫的孩子追上來喚住我:「You are Pan-Americn? Give me Money!」
Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫) was born in Tokyo in 1925. He graduated from Tokyo Imperial University’s School of Jurisprudence in 1947. His first published book, The Forest in Full Bloom, appeared in 1944 and he established himself as a major author with Confessions of a Mask (1949). From then until his death he continued to publish novels, short stories, and plays each year. His crowning achievement, the Sea of Fertility tetralogy—which contains the novels Spring Snow (1969), Runaway Horses (1969), The Temple of Dawn (1970), and The Decay of the Angel (1971)—is considered one of the definitive works of twentieth-century Japanese fiction. In 1970, at the age of forty-five and the day after completing the last novel in the Fertility series, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide)—a spectacular death that attracted worldwide attention.