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48 来自父亲的短信凯瑟琳.雷德夫 353
49 最后一束玫瑰丽莎.内格尔.谢伊 360
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9 不可替代的记忆 A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono We have a dead man on our answering machine. I dont mean to say that I hear dead people. At least, not all dead people. Just one, and his message is pretty bland. This past winter, an ailing friend of the family, Skip, abruptly went into a long term care facility. He called to let us know what was going on, but got our answering machine. We heard Skips message and visited him the next day. He died that night. No one had erased Skips message by the time he died and afterwards, my father in-law didnt have the heart to. The message on our answering machine might have been the last recorded moment of Skips life, my father-in-law reasoned. Erasing it would, in some way, be like erasing Skip from this planet. So Skip has stayed on our machine for months. Its a bit weird checking the answering machine because I always have to press the skip button on the first message. In other words, I have to skip Skip. Thanks to modern technology, we now can have recorded mementos of our loved ones long after they die. But it can be hard to draw a distinction between the sacred and the inane when dealing with the dead. Its sort of like a 21st century version of cleaning out a parents house after a funeral. Unless you want to inherit a houseful of stuff you dont need, you have to make some choices. 记忆就是当有些事发生了但又没有完全被淡忘时所留下的一切。 爱德华?德?波诺 我们的留言机上有一个已经去世的人在说话。并不是说我能听见去世的人说话。最起码，不是所有去世的人。只有一个人，他的留言非常平淡。 在过去的这个冬天，我们家一个叫斯基普的长期患病的朋友突然间住进了护理中心。他打来电话告诉我们发生了什么事，结果没有人在家，所以留言机录下了他的话。我们听到他的留言后第二天就去看望了他，结果当天晚上他就去世了。在他去世时和去世后，家里都没人去删掉斯基普的留言。我的岳父并不忍心这么做。他解释说在我们留言机上的那段话可能记录了斯基普生命最后的时刻。删掉它就像是将斯基普从地球上抹去一样。 于是斯基普就在我们的留言机中待了好几个月。对我而言，检查留言变成一件有些奇怪的事情，因为我总得跳过第一条留言。换句话说，我不得不跳过斯基普⑴。 感谢现代科技，如今我们所爱的人离开人世很久之后我们也还能保留他们的录音。不过在和死人打交道时很难在神圣和愚蠢间划出确切的界限。这有点像21 世纪版本的在葬礼后清理父母的房子。除非你想继承一屋子你不想要的东西，否则你就必须做出选择。 ⑴ 斯基普英文为Skip，与英文单词跳过是同一个词。译者注
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