P146
... Rooftops are romantic- not just because they are, metaphorically speaking, adjacent to the sky, but also because they are hidden away. Stand on a rooftop and you cannot help but have simultaneous thoughts about life's infinite possibilities and the omnipresent potentiality for self-destruction. Look to the heavens and you can think, Everything is possible. Look to the sky and you can also think, I am insignificant. And then you can shuffle your way to the edge of the roof and look down and tell yourself, Just two steps and my life would be over. And would that be such a horrendous thing?
屋根にはロマンがある。空と接しているからというメタファー的な意味合いだけでなく、見えない所にあるからだ。屋根の上に立つと、人生の無限の可能性と、共存する破滅の可能性を意識せずにはいられない。天を見上げ、なんだってできる、と思う。同じように天を見上げ、自分はちっぽけだ、とも思う。そして屋根の端まで歩いていって下を見て思う：一歩飛び降りれば死か。それだって、たいしたことじゃない。
