歷史學家

周末拾起朋友推薦許久的小說"歷史學家"，很久沒有讀到如此引人入勝的原文書，late night page turner, indeed。故事由大使的女兒無意發現了一封神秘的信展開，父親猶如太過憂愁與害怕而無法一次把經歷過的故事說完，於是在一次次的旅程中，他同女兒片片斷斷的講述這個神祕的找尋德古拉的故事。第十章之始，由下面這一段文字展開：

As an adult, I have very often know that peculiar legacy time brings to the traveler: the longing to seek out a place a second time, to find deliberately what we stumbled on once before, to recapture the feeling of discover. Sometimes we search out again even a place that was not remarkable in itself - we look for it simply because we remember it. If we do find it, of course, everything is different. The rough-hewn door is still there, but its much smaller, the day is cloudy instead of brilliant; it's spring instead of autumn; we're alone instead of with three friends. Or worse, with three friends instead of alone.

 -- Historian Chapter 10.

儘管劇情吸引著我繼續閱讀下去，我卻不可自拔的被這段文字深深吸引，一遍遍地反覆閱讀著，並且把她抄錄在筆記本中。一段屬於過去的回憶湧現，我想到高中畢業旅行時，我們如何在那一個熟悉的休息站一夥兒人突地衝下車，為著尋找屬於我們班遊時共同的烤香腸與炸杏鲍菇的回憶，因而搶先占領那個將會是最熱門的攤子。而這段回憶僅屬於二班，那一車執著有著共同記憶的一群夥伴。