[出走地平線：海上殺人事件]
Flattening The Curve: Death at sea
大海擁抱你，亦能殺死你。一如你身邊的船員。
很多水手都喜歡飲酒和賭錢。
他們之間很多爭執，於我印象最深，莫過於一個中國海員與水手長（他是甲板與甲板下層艙的阿頭）之間的爭端。
這名中國海員是我第一個認識的中國人，所以一直銘記在心。
他跟海員長說了挑釁性的話，令對方揮刀相向，險些把中國水手的頭也砍下來。
沒多久，我們泊岸香港。我首次來港遊歷。
我經過一間戲院，在那之前從沒有看過華語片，沒多久才發現那裡上映的作品叫《忠烈圖》。
當時，我也沒接觸過中國女性，第一個印象就是片中美麗的女主角徐楓，她的近鏡讓我驚為天人。
我在戲院裡找到位子坐下，一個男人隨即坐到我後面的座位。還以為找了好位，誰不知後排男把一雙赤腳伸到我椅背上。
我又坐過隔離一個座位。
電影開始讓我投入其中。
然後，我感覺到有雨打落我身上。
我向上望，沒發現天花板穿窿，再望一望後排男，才知道他口吐瓜子殼。
我站起來，面帶恐嚇地盯著他，用了中國海員險些被砍頭的粗話迎戰，但後排男不明所以，還繼續吐瓜子。
我離開時一頭霧水，完全不明白為何撩交嗌也做不到 。
很多年以後才有人解釋我知，當年爆粗對方無反應，是因為我說普通話。當時的香港冇人明白，因為個個都講廣東話。
The big sea embraces you. It can also kill you. Or if it doesn’t sometimes your crew
mates might.
Most seamen like to drink and gamble.
Arguments were frequent but the one I remember forever was between a Chinese
seaman and the bosun ( the head of the deck and below deck crew ) .
It is the first Chinese I had ever heard spoken. And It stays with me till now.
What the seaman said to the bosun was so aggressive and delivered with such effect that the bosun took out a knife and sashed his neck so vigorously the he almost cut of the
seaman’s head.
Not long later we docked in Hong Kong. I went exploring.
I passed a cinema. Up till then I had never seen a Chinese film. Later I worked out that it was The Valiant Ones.
I never met a Chinese woman either, so the first vision of the beautiful actress Hsu Feng riding into close up knocked me of my feet.
I found a seat. But a guy immediately came and sat beside me. I was just settled into what I thought was a safer seat when a pair of bare feet rest up against the back of my seat.
I move one seat over.
The film is pulling me in.
Then I start to feel what seems to be rain falling on me.
I look up. No there’s no hole in the roof. I look back to see the guy behind spitting out sunflower seeds.
I stand try to look intimidating and use that phrase that almost got a seaman killed. The guy looks blankly at me then spits some more seeds.
I leave not understanding why we didn’t even get into a fight.
Year later someone explains; that phrase of yours in super insulting in Putongua but in those years in Hong Kong most people wouldn’t understand you, they only spoke Cantonese.
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