我对音乐没有多少知识,也谈不上特别的爱好。但写作《鞋癖》的时候,我正在听一盘舒伯特的男声独唱歌带。歌是用法文唱出来的,我一句也不懂。当时我正处法国西海岸一个小城市里,准备待上一个月。也就是说,我将在市政府给我安排的一幢海边住所里,守着六个房间、四张床以及三个厕所,独自一人把大西洋灰暗的浪涛盯上三十来天。这个城市没有中国人,以我相当有限的英文,也不大容易找到太多的英语对 I don’t have much knowledge of music, nor can I talk about special interests. But when I wrote “Shoe Shoe,” I was listening to a Schubert male solo. The song is written in French and I don’t understand it. At the time I was in a small city on the west coast of France and we were ready for the last month. In other words, I will be guarding six rooms, four beds, and three toilets in a seaside residence arranged for me by the city government, staring alone at the dark waves of the Atlantic for thirty days. There is no Chinese in this city. In my limited English, it is not easy to find too many pairs of English.