附帶一提,書中提到一位大學教授Roman Dial,他陪著作者走訪了在阿拉斯加的最後事發地點。而他在去年完成了無補給,橫越阿拉斯加(24天/1000公里)的壯舉。Roman Dial曾在書中提到,本書主角所嘗試的,連他也做不到。
http://www.ryanjordan.com/2006_arctic/
"The People
Roman Dial is a Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Alaska Pacific University, an expedition adventure racer, and has trekked, skied, biked, and paddled some of the longest wilderness routes ever attempted in Alaska. "
這本書每次看都給我不同的觸發...從我與父母間的關係,到"生涯規劃"的疑惑,到我跟下一代的關係...好多年過去了,那個在阿拉斯加林子裡嚥下最後一口氣的,永遠24歲的年輕人,總有些話可以對我說。最近又翻了那本書,我不禁算算他的年紀,也想想當年初閱此書的我,當年初閱此書,就是他那個年紀,很多感觸啊。每次讀到他的遺言,總是敲中了我心中最深的那一塊--
“I have had a happy life and Thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God Bless All!”
The Speed of Trees 專輯中的"克里斯之歌"真的很好聽
The Ballad of Chris McCandless
He was out on the highway smiling
A mystic in torn blue jeans
The kid left his trust fund to come out walking.
He hitched across this country
backpack and a head full of dreams
Could’ve sworn he heard the earth a talking–.talking
[chorus 1]
Sometimes, he said, don’t it feel like the concrete’s closing in?
We’re putting bricks on the horizon
Was he chasing fool’s gold–or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?
I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless
Stepped in the wild of a dream
The horizon in South Dakota
Is an ocean of harvest grain
In a dusty silo we found work for the taking
We’d hitched up from California
But he never told me his real name
Never told me what past he was out here shaking
We're all shaking something...
[chorus 2]
Sometimes, he said, don’t it feel like technology’s closing in?
We’re raising towers on the horizon
Was he chasing fool’s gold–or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?
I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless
Stepped in the wild of a dream
[bridge]
A stone–.a path–a river of glass
The night sky–can you see stars from wherever you are?....wherever you are....
In a broken school bus they found him
In the heart of the Alaska range
The journey ends when the heart stops beating–time is fleeting
Was he chasing fool’s gold,
Or a holy man walking a dirt road to the end?
I hitched a ride with Chris McCandless
Stepped in the wild with Chris McCandless
And I felt alive with Chris McCandless
I was wide awake in the dream–dream.
不過
有幾句不了解
Sometimes, he said, don’t it feel like the concrete’s closing in?
We’re putting bricks on the horizon
......
......
Sometimes, he said, don’t it feel like technology’s closing in?
We’re raising towers on the horizon
......
......
Never told me what past he was out here shaking
We're all shaking something...
請問有人可以闡釋嗎?
另外一個作品是
chris was no philosopher
he was an ordinary man
twenty-four and running out of room
a rifle and a pack
and a sack of rice on his back
guided by tolstoy(托爾斯泰) and the moon
into the yukon(育康區) he would go
in search of a higher truth
christopher(Chris) would make a break
with his world
but he never escaped his youth
sahara will never be the south of france
obvious with the rising sun
if i had no home
i'd build one in the sand
if i didn't have a love i'd find me one
if i didn't have a love i'd find me one
(以上這一段不太了解怎麼會出現在這邊?是作者本身的情愫?)
four months alone in the ice and snow
is a long way from annandale
locals and trappers and eskimos
knew better than to trust that trail
at one with the earth he loved so well
a retreat from civilization
hunger and emptiness took their toll
chris mcandless(Chris) passed us by...