接待我的沙湾退休老师罗恩上楼来看我，他是乔伊斯协会的志愿者。他很稀罕地端详着我正在读的中文版，比我把自己安置在塔里读书还更稀罕些。“乔伊斯竟然如此国际化了。”他感慨地望着乔伊斯翻译成中文的名字。
我向他说起自己第一次知道乔伊斯的大学时代。1981年，中文系的欧洲文学史课上到现代部分，教授们都没有正式的教材。刚好袁可嘉、董衡巽、郑克鲁等几位选编的《外国现代派作品选》在上海陆续出版，那套书就成了我们的教材。它就是带领我们走向世界文学的摩西。在介绍意识流作家的那一册，我读到《尤利西斯》中最平稳干净的第二章。
My host Ron,a retired school teacher and Sandycove local,came upstairs to see me.He is a volunteer with the James Joyce Society.He regarded the Chinese edition of Ulysses that I had been reading with such a look as if it was more implausible than the fact that I had managed to come to the tower to read."Joyce has become so international,"he remarked while eyeing the Chinese rendition of James Joyce's name on the book cover.
I told him about my college years when I first came to know about Joyce.It was in 1981and there were no textbooks that professors could recommend when we began the module on modernism in our course on European literary history at the Department of Chinese Literature.It so happened that The Selected Works of Western Modernist Writersselected by Yuan Kejia,Dong Hengxun,ZhengKelu had then come out in successive volumes in Shanghai.They served as textbooks and led us,as Moses did his subjects,to a new world,albeit of Western literature.In the volume of stream-of-consciousness writers,I came upon Episode 2of Ulysses,the best paced and least obscure of all chapters.
英译：刘海明
一、沙湾
从四十步潭到圆堡，
在文字上建立起来的方位感，
让人觉得这里似曾相识。
2013年的6月15日下午的都柏林，阳光异常温暖。沙湾如今已是昂贵的住宅区，家家院子里都探出营养良好、枝条从不乱戳的花枝，有紫色和白色的丁香、摇摇欲坠的白牡丹，还有许多不知名的海岛之花。主街上的咖啡馆玻璃门上贴出崭新的广告——明天“布卢姆日”，供应特色早餐：圆堡里的早餐，或者布卢姆早餐。显然它早已不是1904年故事里的“船记”。
有人在窗里桌边吃着一块新鲜的柠檬挞，他已换上小说里的衣服：细布条纹衬衣、褐色底子上夹着赭红色和墨绿色细条的弹力吊裤带，从衬衣胸贴袋里挂出来一条亮晃晃的怀表链子——耶稣会会长康米神父在第十章里用过的怀表哦，不知这是否暗示着他的宗教背景。
有个年轻瘦削的女人擦过我身边，捧着一束摇曳不停的雏菊，走到店堂外面的遮阳伞下落座。看上去，她比乔伊斯中心里挂着的诺拉肖像要瘦削硬朗多了，黑色短发贴着小巧的头颅和面颊，看上去不一定受得了乔伊斯日常生活中根深蒂固的自私。她放在桌面上的雏菊，应该典出于康米神父在路上见到过的那对情侣。
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