“I shall not waste my days,” said Ian Fleming, quoting Jack London, “in trying to prolong them”. The studied loucheness of the epigram would grate had he not lived a life so unwaveringly faithful to it. Gonorrhoea at 19, death at 56, the uncountable Morlands that he smoked in between — the Rake of Oracabessa mastered the lost art of what we can only call unwellness. Oh, for its return.
伊恩•弗莱明(Ian Fleming)曾引用杰克•伦敦(Jack London)的话说:“我不会把时间浪费在延长生命上。”如果不是他本人在生活中坚定不移地遵循着这条警句,这句话中刻意的粗鲁可能会令人不快。他在19岁时患上淋病,56岁时逝世,之间抽过无数根“莫兰”(Morlands)烟草店的烟卷——这位“奥拉卡贝萨的浪子”(Rake of Oracabessa)掌握着一门失落的艺术,而我们只能称之为不健康。为了“不健康”的回归,干杯。
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