LuLu譯想世界

可愛。說不清自己對情人的愛慕究竟是怎麼回事，戀人只好用了這麼個呆板的詞兒：「可愛！」

──摘自《星空中的普魯斯特》p4

I

The Boys Who Escaped From Wolves (1975)

1.

The Point and the Flats

When Sean Devine and Jimmy Marcus were kids, their fathers worked together at the Coleman Candy plant and carried the stench of warm chocolate back home with them. it became a permanent character of their clothes, the beds they slept in, the vinyl backs of their car seats. Sean’s kitchen smelled like a Fudgsicle, his bathroom like a Coleman Chew-Chew bar. By the time they were eleven, Sean and Jimmy had developed a hatred of sweets so total that they took their coffee black for the rest of their lives and never ate dessert.