転んでもただでは起きない
風邪をひいてこの二週間ほとんど寝ていた。東大寺や春日大社を二時間近く歩いたから引いたのだ。その日はそんなに寒くはなく、喫茶店やうどん店やレストランなどで何度も休憩したから、家に帰ったときはそんなに疲れたとは思わなかった。
ところが、翌朝、喉は痛いし、声はかれているし、身体がだるい。風邪の細菌が身体に既に入り込んでいて、弱みにつけ込んで暴れ始めたのだ。
お陰で、いろいろ欠席する羽目になった。古武道の杖道の稽古を二回、英語創作講座、英語短編読解講座、歴史講座、シェクスピア原書講座だ。
しかし、寝ていたおかげで、You-tubeで「老人と海」（英語と日本語）、カフカの「変身」、坂口安吾の「不良少年とキリスト」などを聞くことができた。風邪をひいたおかげだ。
I caught a cold and spent most of my day lying in bed for two weeks. The reason I picked up a cold is that I walked around Todaiji Temple and Kasuga Shrine for almost two hours. It was not a cold day and I took a break several times at a coffee shop, a noodle shop, and a restaurant. I didn’t feel tired when I came back home.
The next morning, however, my throat was sore and my voice was husky. I felt sick. The virus which I had had in my body got power and began to get wild.
I was absent from several classes, including two jodo martial art classes, an English creative writing class, a short story reading class, a history class, and a Shakespeare reading class.
However, I had a chance to listen to readings of many stories such as The Old Man and the Sea (both in English and Japanese), Kafka’s The Transformation, and Furyo-shonenn to kirisuto by Ango Sakaguchi on the U-Tube. I would not have listened to them if I had not had a cold.
