Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
幸福。グラス一杯のチョコレートのようにシンプルで、人の心のように複雑。苦くて、甘くて、生き生きとして。 「Chocolat ショコラ」/ジョアン・ハリス
○メモリー・ウォール Memory Wall(2010)/アンソニー・ドーア Anthony Doerr
Every hour...all over the globe, an infinite number of memories disappear, whole glowing atlases dragged into graves. But during the same hour, children are moving about, surveying territory that to them is totally new.
「After World」より
He wrote a series of guidebooks for people forced to travel on business. Ridiculous, when you thought about it: Macon hated travel. He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz ― squinching his eyes shut and holding his breath and hanging on for dear life, he sometimes imagined ― and then settled back home with a sigh of relief to produce his chunky, passport-sized paperbacks. Accidental Tourist in France. Accidental Tourist in Germany. In Belgium. No author’s name, just a logo: a winged armchair on the cover.
He covered only the cities in these guides, for people taking business trips flew into cities and out again and didn't see the countryside at all. They didin't see the cities for that matter. Their concern was how to pretend they never left home. What hotels in Madrid boasted king-sized Beautyrest mattresses? What restaurants in Tokyo offered Sweet'n'Low? Did Amsterdam have a McDonald's? Did Mexico City have a Taco Bell? Did any place in Rome serve Chef Boyardee ravioli? Other travelers hoped to discover distinctive local wines; Macon's readers searched for pasteurized and homogenized milk.