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《美食祈祷和恋爱》Chapter 80 (183):诸神之岛  

The revival of the dream of a fabled Eden came in the late 1960s
when the Indonesian government decided to reinvent Bali for the international tourist market as "The Island of the Gods
" launching a massively successful marketing campaign. The tourists who were lured back to Bali were a fairly high-minded crowd (this was not Fort Lauderdale
after all)
and their attention was guided toward the artistic and religious beauty inherent in the Balinese culture. Darker elements of history were overlooked. And have remained overlooked since.
Reading about all this during my afternoons in the local library leaves me somewhat con-fused. Wait—why did I e to Bali again? To search for the balance beeen worldly pleas-ure and spiritual devotion
right? Is this
indeed
the right setting for such a search? Do the Balinese truly inhabit that peaceful balance
more than anyone else in the world? I mean
they look balanced
what with all the dancing and praying and feasting and beauty and smiling
but I don't know what's actually going on under there. The policemen really do wear flowers tucked behind their ears
but there's corruption all over the place in Bali
just like in the rest of Indonesia (as I found out firsthand the other day when I passed a uniformed man a few hun-dred bucks of under-the-table cash to illegally extend my visa so I could stay in Bali for four months
after all). The Balinese quite literally live off their image of being the world's most peaceful and devotional and artistically expressive people
but how much of that is intrinsic and how much of that is economically calculated? And how much can an outsider like me ever learn of the hidden stresses that might loiter behind those "shining faces"? It's the same here as anywhere else—you look at the picture too closely and all the firm lines start to melt away into an indistinct mass of blurry brushstrokes and blended pixels.
For now
all I can say for certain is that I love the house I have rented and that the people in Bali have been gracious to me without exception. I find their art and ceremonies to be beautiful and restorative; they seem to think so
as well. That's my empirical experience of a place that is probably far more plex than I will ever understand. But whatever the Balinese need to do in order to hold their own balance (and make a living) is entirely up to them. What I'm here to do is work on my own equilibrium
and this still feels
at least for now
like a nourishing climate in which to do that. Eat
Pray
Love
目前我只能确定，我喜爱自己租下的房子，而巴厘岛民待我彬彬有礼，无一例外。他们的艺术与仪式在我看来美丽而富活力；他们似乎也这么认为。这是我在这地方的存在经验，或许比我能了解的更为复杂。但无论巴厘岛人必须把持自己的平衡（并维持生计）到什么程度，都操之在他们自己。我在这儿做的则是保持自己的平衡状态，至少就目前而言，此地仍是滋养的环境所在。