茵梦湖（彩墨）
这是我心目中的“茵梦湖”。前些年，曾跟邻居们去法国南部做一次深度旅游十天。领队带我们到处去玩，一路上引经据典，把南法的“亚维侬”“土伦”“嘉德水道”“摩纳哥”等名城及当地的人文逸事说得是如数家珍，引人入胜。最后再拨出一天半去游瑞士。在介绍瑞士著名的日内瓦湖时，脱口说：日内瓦湖是就小说中的“茵梦湖”。
真是出乎我的预料之外──唉，太煞风景了。
茵梦湖其实是文人心目中的湖：清浅、小巧、幽静、富诗意的美。湖中还植有荷花，男主角脱下衣裤走入湖中去摘荷花的情景历历在目；而现今我们看到的日内瓦湖，又宽又深，湖中泊满了游艇，联合国总部就立在湖边──美则美矣，就是欠缺那种淡淡伤感、怅然酸楚的文艺气息──说茵梦湖就是日内瓦湖，这种说法，我自有我的皮里春秋。
Immensee/ink and color painting
This is the way that I envision “Immensee.” Not long ago, I went with some neighbors on a 10-day in-depth trip to the south of France, and our tour guide took us to many interesting places. The guide gave us plenty of information in many stories about the places we visited. He gave us detailed accounts of such places his Avignon, Toulouse, the Camargue, and Monaco, as well as local stories and anecdotes, and it was all very fascinating. We visited Switzerland during the last day and a half of the trip. 12 viewing Switzerland’s famous Lake Geneva, our guide happened to tell us that Lake Geneva appears as “Immensee” in that famous novel.
The incredible scenery truly exceeded my expectations.
Immensee is a lake as a poet would imagine it: Clear water, a charming landscape, powerful serenity, and lyric beauty. Lotuses have been planted in the water of the lake. The scene in which the main male character in the book takes off his clothing and walks into the lake to pick lotuses kept appearing in my mind. The Lake Geneva that we see is broad and deep; there are boats on the lake, and the United Nations headquarters appears by the lakeside. It is truly a lovely scene, but it lacks that subtle sense of pain—that refined feeling of disenchantment and loss. So I have definite reservations about identifying Immensee with Lake Geneva.@
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