Trivial Tracks

なんとなく以前のエントリー「真夏の夜の夢」を英語へ意訳

I was on a vast food floor of an enormous shopping mall alone and I couldn't find the way out of it. some time later, I ran into a bar, its facade was modern but it looked like isolated from the floor or even the building, in fact, there was a big gap in front of the bar so I had to stride the gap to go in. like keeping people away from the bar.
I could see some lavish antique tables which must have been more than 100 years old as soon as I went inside the bar. then the waiter asked me "Which table would you care for?". I don't think he meant to ask where I would like to sit down but he wanted to ask which table I like. there was no table for two, just a few big round tables to sit with other people.
in the meantime, I was drinking something with three small glasses. two of them were thin glasses with just some fruits juice, and one of them was thick glass with refreshing sweet alcohol.I drank them alternately and slowly.
as the time past, couples went home but some people looking like coming to the bar often remained. suddenly they started moving to the bar counter from the tables without signal, then the light turned off except around the counter. however, it was not so dark because of the moon light coming through the large window. overlapping of the lights created a sober atmosphere and made me relaxed.
while all of them moved to their new seats, I also moved to the corner of the counter where I could see a man, he had white long beard and seemed like good old man on the diagonally forward right. other man beside me was talking about cigar with one of the waiters, although, I didn't smell smoke at all in the bar.
right after I drank the glass empty, the bartender suddenly put a cup of something like tea before me and said "you gotta drink this". other people were also being served the same thing as mine. not only the tea but also he served some pieces of black rounded food with green sauce on a plate. somehow, the green sauce was just for me, not for the others. well, the black food was soft and tasted like rice cake. it's delicious despite of its looks....

Author yasu : August 23, 2006 1:35 AM