介绍:
What never crossed my mind was that someone else who lived under our roof, who played cards with my mother, ate breakfast and supper at our table, recited the Hebrew blessing on Fridays for the sheer fun of it, slept in one of our beds, used our towels, shared our friends, watched TV with us on rainy days when we sat in the living room with a blanket around us because it got cold and we felt so snug being all together as we listened to the rain patter against the windows—that someone else in my immediate world might like what I liked, want what I wanted, be who I was. It would never have entered my mind because I was still under the illusion that, barring what I’d read in books, inferred from rumors, and overheard in bawdy talk all over, no one my age had ever wanted to be both man and woman—with men and women. I had wanted other men my age before and had slept with women. But before he’d stepped out of the cab and walked into our home, it would never have seemed remotely possible that someone so thoroughly okay with himself might want me to share his body as much as I ached to yield up mine.
And yet, about two weeks after his arrival, all I wanted every night was for him to leave his room, not via its front door, but through the French windows on our balcony. I wanted to hear his window open, hear his espadrilles on the balcony, and then the sound of my own window, which was never locked, being pushed open as he’d step into my room after everyone had gone to bed, slip under my covers, undress me without asking, and after making me want him more than I thought I could ever want another living soul, gently, softly, and, with the kindness one Jew extends to another, work his way into my body, gently and softly, after heeding the words I’d been rehearsing for days now, Please, don’t hurt me, which meant, Hurt me all you want.
我从未想过，就在我身边，竟然有这么一个人，住在我们家，陪我母亲打牌，和我们共进早餐、晚餐，纯粹为了好玩而在周五背诵希伯来祷词，睡我们的床，用我们的毛巾，结识我们的朋友，雨天和我们一起坐在客厅里裹着同一条毛毯看电视——天气冷了，我们觉得大伙儿聚在一起听外面雨打窗权，感觉温暖又舒服——仿佛是另一个我一般，喜欢我喜欢的，想要我想要的。我从未起过这样的念头，因为除了在书上读到的、从谣言里猜测的和无意中听闻的淫言秽语外，我仍然活在这样的错觉里：我这个年纪的人没有谁想要同时扮演男人和女人的角色，或是同时想跟男人和女人在一起。我也曾经对同龄的男孩怀有欲望，也跟女孩子在一起过。但之前似乎连微乎其微的可能性都没有——像他这般完全接受自我的人，竟然想要和我分享他的身体，而我也同样渴望奉献出我的——直到他走下出租车、来到我家中。
然而，在他抵达大约两周后，每到夜晚，我满脑子只希望他走出房间。不是从前门，而是经过我们共用阳台的落地窗。我想听他落地窗打开的声音，听他布面平底凉鞋踏上阳台的声音，然后是我这边从不上锁的落地窗被推开的声音。众人入眠的夜里，他走进我的房间，钻进我的被窝，不由分说褪下我的衣物，当我渴望他超乎我对任何一个人的渴望时，轻轻地、温柔地，以一个犹太人对另一个犹太人的友爱，向我靠近；在他听到我那句已在舌尖练习了无数遍的“请不要伤害我”——真正的意思其实是：“随意对我做你想要的”之后，轻轻地，温柔地……
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