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至于吴莲身体最后的遮盖物,是养老院的那位孤老头独自完成的。他从樟木箱中取出那套已经洗得发白的大红衣裳试图替她穿上,脆弱的纤维由于身体的变形而被撕裂。他后来翻箱倒柜地寻找,却没有发现任何粗细麻布做成的白丧服,只在樟木箱的最底层,寻得一套看得过眼也足够大的黑衣裤。他又用一块干燥的白毛巾,覆盖住死去的吴莲眼中最后的形象。吴莲的尸体在县城的殡仪馆火化,孤老头陪伴着直到焚烧结束,充当她路尽头唯一的男人和亲人。他把骨灰盒领回,又特意去了趟她的家,将她与周鉴的骨灰盒并排摆放在长条桌的中央。他走到门边又回头望了最后一眼,跨过门槛,吱呀声中,将门重重地撞上。现在,再也没有什么能够阻隔他们,越过生与死的界限终于共同长眠的——吴莲和周鉴将主宰屋里的一切,包括:尘埃、情感、禁忌、法律,与久到永恒的孤寂。Field Work
At the centre of this collection, which includes groups of elegies and love poems, there is a short sonnet sequence which concentrates themes apparent elsewhere in the book: the individual's responsibility for his own choices, the artist's commitment to his vocation, the vulnerability of all in the face of circumstance and death. 'Throughout the volume Heaney's outstanding gifts, his eye, his ear, his understanding of the poetic language are on display - this is a book we cannot do without.' Martin Dodsworth, Guardian