"Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs on hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate—he has little success in this—but with the other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair."--Kafka



Sunday, May 9, 2010

鐵道行

這番重遊台灣,走平溪線,又遇上醉人的台鐵:自強號、區間車、便當、老月台、路軌。好像重遇老朋友。
三年前到台灣環島旅行,迷倒我的不是人不是風景不是美食,而是台鐵,自此成了鐵道迷。可能天生懶得動,坐火車,飽覽沿途風光,閒閒省省,從不覺悶,還有那些車站名好特別:水里、瑞穗、集集……台鐵沿途的小車站,全都好像在打呵欠似的,真教人慵懶。猶記得走東線和南迴線,不時火車一轉角,就看到海,那時由台東跑到高雄,沒位子坐,坐在門口看風景,也不覺悽楚。上阿里山,坐小火車整整要三個多小時,到過阿里山的朋友都坐到喊悶,我卻興致勃勃的欣賞從山腳到山頂不同的植物景緻,感受氣溫越來越寒冷,還有體驗火車逆行,在我眼中都好玩之極。
常常想到台灣買旅遊書,不過都是給台灣本土人看的,不懂駕機車的我也就得物無所用,不過今次到台灣最大收穫竟是買了劉克襄的「11元的鐵道旅行」,沿途懷舊小景致,真合我心意,舒國治的「台北小吃札記」也是可愛至極的小書,當是體味台灣老風味的好書。

ps:去旅行回來,總是感到我是適合一個人漫遊的,帶一本書,一支筆,一本記事本,就上機吧,有空與當地人瞎扯一番,名勝古蹟不必一遊,吃小點心,感受地方獨有氣息,旅行於我來說不是玩樂不是shopping,而是體味另一處地方的生活,有可能的話,想再去台灣,要很慢很慢的作鐵道遊。

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