年近四十確韻味十足的意法混血歌手、模特Carla Bruni近來成為Yahoo搜索榜上第一名,而美國大選炙熱的Hillary Clinton也不過排名第七。Carla Bruni 一向因她兩枚專輯而揚名國際,很多聽過她的法語專輯Quelqu’un m’a dit (someone told me)和英語詩歌專輯no promises的人都立刻喜歡上她沙啞、慵懶的歌喉。我是愛屋及烏的一類人,喜歡上她的歌後,就開始關注她的一舉一動。
近來Carla Bruni與法國新選上的總統關係密切,這位總統剛選上總統,旋即與太太離婚,毫不避嫌地帶著Brunil四處游玩,在大批保鏢的簇擁下高調地暴光於媒體。聽說,一位俄羅斯富豪也在追求Bruni,大概總統想在他的對手面前炫耀一下。而鏡頭前Bruni甜美的笑容表明,似乎很享受這種與政壇要人的戀愛感覺。
然而這一切僅屬猜測,如果聽一聽Bruni譜曲的詩歌專輯no promises(其中收錄了Bruni喜愛的Emily Dickinson和Rossetti的詩),或許對Bruni的愛情觀有另一番解讀。
Promises Like Pie-Crust
(C. G. Rossetti)
Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?
You, so warm, may once have been
Warmer towards another one:
I, so cold, may once have seen
Sunlight, once have felt the sun:
Who shall show us if it was
Thus indeed in time of old?
Fades the image from the glass,
And the fortune is not told.
If you promised, you might grieve
For lost liberty again:
If I promised, I believe
I should fret to break the chain.
Let us be the friends we were,
Nothing more but nothing less:
Many thrive on frugal fareWho would perish of excess.
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