Hello darkness, my old friend 無明無可拒 盡告我相知 I've come to talk with you again 有緣再相聚 誠然吐心思 Because a vision softly creeping 幻境漸迷蒙 left its seeds while I was sleeping 留痕夢未知 And the vision that was planted in my brain, still remainsWithin the sound of silence 倉生滿光怪 凡塵盡陸離 迷情剪不斷 無出嫋嫋音
In restless dreams I walked alone narrow streets of cobblestone 獨行仍在夢 圆卵狹路通 Neath the halo of a streetlamp 燈下映光暈 I turned my collar to the cold and damp 露冷整衣衿 When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light 耀目是霓虹 Split the night. 夜幕早已分 And touched the sound of silence 繞樑總不散 無聲傳靜音
And in the naked light I saw ten thousand people, maybe more 極目為所見 萬衆有餘人 People talking without speaking People hearing without listening 相談無所對 充耳無所聞 People writing songs that voices never shared 邪音成樂章 啞口和靡音 and no one dared to stir the sound of silenceFool said I, you do not know 未敢擾痴人 喃喃自不知 silence, like a cancer, grows 橫行是魍魎 漫不經爾心
Hear my words and I might teach you 奉汝兩三言 知之可為師 take my arms then I might reach you 並肩共進退 你我為所依 But my words like silent raindrops fell and echoed in the wells of silence 善言若甘淋 落地是鏗鏘 回音知蕩漾 潛意似井深
And the people bowed and prayed to the neon god they'd made 邪道人伏拜 神光本霓虹 亦非從天降 疑幻出禍心 And the sign flashed its warning in the words that it was forming 閃爍驚世語 根原是砌詞
And the sign said the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls 高人早有兆 深壁現正語 and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence 宮室透非常 無聲是真音
亞歷山大(Ed Alexander)是阿拉斯加大學(the University of Alaska)
的育空地區研究中心計畫協調員(Yukon Flats centre
coordinator),他說:「你不能相信那層(薄)冰。」「這是我們經歷過最溫暖的冬天,雪量減少了、結冰層變薄、灌樹林大量蔓生把小徑都給堵塞
了,諸如此類的事都發生了,而這讓一切變得非常危險。」
亞歷山大說,河川下游的聚落在今年冬天已經失去了好幾位成員,面對不夠厚實的河川冰層,這幾位經驗老道的獵人及補獸者也難以應付,他們最終在冰層不堪雪橇車負重碎裂下,墜河生亡。
驚險一瞬間
亞歷山大自己才剛從鬼門關前逃過一劫。
他回憶,某個星期天他和老婆乘著雪橇車出門,正好遇上冰層過薄的情況,所幸兩人最後成功脫逃,場面相當驚險。亞歷山大描述,當他
騎經結冰河面時,注意到冰層下到處都是流水,所以他停下雪橇車告訴他老婆:「看來我們得掉頭,走另一條路了。」就在他將車掉頭後,亞歷山大發現他的後車身
已陷入雪及薄冰裡。
「我們趕緊啟動馬達往前疾駛,而身後出現一道從破裂河面中噴出30英尺的水柱(there was a rooster
tail of water coming out 30ft behind
us)。最後我們成功逃回岸邊,但這一次經驗的著實把我們嚇醒了。」亞歷山大說。