Name: 公共長椅頌歌 | 沉浸於意義之中 (Ode To Public Benches | Escape Into Meaning)
Uploaded: 2026-01-24T17:17:21.000Z
Duration: 2 min 42 s

Public benches offer an escape from the relentless flow of metropolitan streets.

公共長椅提供了一個喘息的空間，讓我們暫時擺脫大都會街道的滾滾洪流。

For the most part, cities encourage you to move from point A to point B without pause.

大多數時候，城市都鼓勵你不停地從A點移動到B點。

That's what the majority of city dwellers are doing outside heading to work, to the store, the gym, a restaurant, heading home.

這就是大多數city dwellers在外頭的樣子，趕著去上班、去商店、去健身房、去餐廳，然後回家。

If you do pause in New York City, for example, you run the risk of being trampled by the herd.

舉例來說，如果你在New York City停下腳步，你可能會被人群踩踏。

The bench allows you to step away from that herd.

It transforms the surroundings into a place to be instead of just a place to pass through.

它將周遭環境轉變成一個可以停留的地方，而不僅僅是個經過的地方。

The simple act of sitting radically alters your relationship to the city and to the people you share it with.

單純坐著這個動作，會徹底改變你與這座城市，以及與你共享這座城市的人們的關係。

而長椅在另一個層面上也很具顛覆性。

Like public parks, where you find lots of them, benches don't require consumption.

就像你經常會發現它們的公共公園一樣，長椅不需要消費。

Unlike almost all other destinations in a city, city benches also the best places on Earth to people Watch one of my favorite pastimes, the Parade of Humanity, is endlessly fascinating, and

和城市裡幾乎所有其他目的地不同的是，city benches也是世界上最棒的people Watch地點，我最喜歡的pastimes之一，Parade of Humanity，總是讓人著迷，而且

from the bench you can watch it with the special anonymity cities provide.

從長椅上，你可以享有城市提供的特殊匿名性來觀察這一切。

Under that invisibility cloak, you can really see others without being preoccupied by their perception of you.

在那件隱形斗篷之下，你真的能看見別人，而不用擔心他們對你的看法。

也許是我太過在意別人的看法了。

my mind is too busy during social interactions to observe the people I'm interacting with.

在社交互動時，我的腦袋太忙了，根本沒辦法觀察我正在互動的人。

Mostly I'm just trying to make it through the conversation without embarrassing myself.

大部分時候，我只想著別讓自己出糗，順利結束對話就好。

There's a tranquility to people watching I rarely have when socializing public benches disappear into the background with whomever is on them, and

觀察人群有種平靜感，這是我在社交時很少能體會到的，public benches 會融入背景，和坐在上面的人一起，

in that camouflage, the bothersome ego can disappear too.

在那種偽裝下，煩人的ego也能消失。

I hope you enjoyed that little excerpt from my essay on Public Benches, which it's one of my personal favorite essays in the book.

希望你喜歡我這篇關於 Public Benches 的 essay 中的小 excerpt，這也是我書裡個人最喜歡的一篇 essay。

If you haven't pre ordered Escape into Meaning yet, which comes out in 15 days by the way, Crazy it is the best possible way to support this project.

如果你還沒 pre order Escape into Meaning 的話，順帶一提，它還有 15 天就要發行了，這絕對是支持這個計畫的最佳方式。

You can find the pre order link in the description below.

你可以在下方的說明裡找到預購連結。

There's going to be a couple more of these excerpt videos in the days to come, and

接下來幾天還會有幾支這樣的節錄影片，

there's going to be a full nerdwriter video by the end of August.

八月底前還會有一個完整的 nerdwriter 影片。

Thank you, thank you to everybody who's already pre ordered the book.

謝謝，非常感謝所有已經預購這本書的朋友。

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