Days pass. I see no one. I come to dread my husband's evening call, not only because he is full of news of what by now seems to me our remote life in Los Angeles, people he has seen, letters which require attention, but because he asks what I have been doing, suggests uneasily that I get out, drive to San Francisco or Berkeley. Instead I drive across the river to a family graveyard. It has been vandalized since my last visit and the monuments are broken, overturned in the dry grass. Because I once saw a rattlesnake in the grass I stay in the car and listen to a country-and-Western station. Later I drive with my father to a ranch he has in the foothills. The man who runs his cattle on it asks us to the roundup, a week from Sunday, and although I know that I will be in Los Angeles I say, in the oblique way my family talks, that I will come. Once home I mention the broken monuments in the graveyard. My mother shrugs.
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日子一天天过去,我没拜访任何人。我开始对丈夫晚间打来的电话感到害怕,不光是因为他老是跟我讲洛杉矶的情况,见到谁啦,哪些信件该回啦,等等,而洛杉矶的生活距离我似乎已遥远了啊!还因为他问我在做什么,有点拘束地建议我出去走走,开车去旧金山或伯克利。我却驾车去了河对岸的一块家族墓地。自我上次来过之后,墓地被破坏了,墓碑断裂,翻倒在枯草丛里。以前我曾在草丛里见到一条响尾蛇,所以这次我待在车上,收听乡村与西部音乐台的广播。后来我同父亲开车去了他在山麓小丘上的农场。为他放牛的人请我们下周日来看他赶拢牛群。尽管我明明知道那时我已回到洛杉矶了,但我还是以家里人绕弯子的方式说要来。一回到家里,我就提起了墓地里的断碑。母亲耸了耸肩。
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