过去两个星期的许多回忆已经消失了:圣安德鲁斯那家小酒店的气味;早餐培根烹饪的混合物和浴室中薰衣草味的肥皂的混合物;海上从高尔夫球场漂流的空气;南街的咖啡吧中的咖啡香气。她应该注意到他们。她应该对所有这一切说了些什么,灯光和山丘上有绵羊像小白色的石头一样。
(Already many of the memories of the previous two weeks had faded: the smell of that small hotel in St. Andrews; that mixture of bacon cooking for breakfast and the lavender-scented soap in the bathroom; the air from the sea drifing across the golf course; the aroma of coffee in the coffee bar in South Street. She should have noted them down. She should have said something about all that and the light and the hills with sheep on them like small white stones.)
段落反映了记忆能够逐渐消失的速度,尤其是那些与感官体验相关的记忆。叙述者回想起最近访问圣安德鲁斯(St. Andrews)的独特气味和景象,这表明这些时刻具有重大的情感体重。日常气味(如烹饪培根和薰衣草肥皂)以及宁静的气氛的结合,捕捉了这个地方的本质。遗憾的是叙述者的脑海中徘徊,考虑记录这种短暂经历的重要性。
这种实现强调了可能被忽视的日常时刻的美丽。通过描述自然景观,就像用绵羊点缀的山丘一样,作者唤起了人们对生活简单乐趣的怀旧感和欣赏的感觉。这种渴望的反思提醒人们,保存回忆丰富了我们对我们访问的地方和他们启发的感觉的理解。