We are torn between

nostalgia for the familiar and

an urge for the foreign

and strange.

As often as not,

we are homesick most for

the places

we have never known.

對熟悉過往的懷念、

對陌生新奇之地的嚮往，

我們在這兩極情緒間

擺盪游移。

未曾親臨的他鄉異地，

反而往往最能讓我們

對之產生思鄉情懷。

文：Carson McCullers

譯：Platero

圖：朱恩伶