爱情美食与祈祷 《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 60 (132):站在塔顶

《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 60 (132):站在塔顶  

When lunch ended
the plumber/poet from New Zealand slipped me a note. It said to meet him after dinner; he wanted to show me something. So after dinner that night I met him over by the meditation caves
and he told me to follow him
that he had a gift for me. He walked me across the Ashram
then led me to a building I'd never been inside before
unlocked a door and took me up a back set of stairs. He knew of this place
I guessed
because he fixes all the air-conditioning units
and some of them are located up there. At the top of the stairs there was a door which he had to unlock with a bination; he did this swiftly
from memory. Then we were up on a geous rooftop
tiled in ceramic chips that glittered in the evening ilight like the bottom of a reflecting pool. He took me across that roof to a little tower
a minaret
really
and showed me another narrow set of stairs
leading to the tippity-top of the tower. He pointed to the tower and said
"I'm going to leave you now. You're going to go up there. Stay up there until it's finished."
"Until what's finished?" I asked.
The plumber just smiled
handed me a flashlight
"for getting down safely when it's over
" and also handed me a folded piece of paper. Then he left.
水管工只是微笑，递给我一支手电筒：“让你结束的时候平安地下来。”另外交给我一张摺叠起来的纸。而后离去。
I climbed to the top of the tower. I was now standing at the tallest place in the Ashram
with a view overlooking the entirety of this river valley in India. Mountains and farmland stretched out as far as I could see. I had a feeling this was not a place students were normally allowed to hang out
but it was so lovely up there. Maybe this is where my Guru watches the sun go down
when she's in residence here. And the sun was going down right now. The breeze was warm. I unfolded the piece of paper the plumber/poet had given me.
He had typed: