Bosom Friends: Hsu Tse-mou and John C.H. Wu

推心置腹：徐志摩和吳經熊的友誼

10.7109/HKJELL.200107.0127

吳樹德(John Wu)

Hwa Kang Journal of English Language & Literature

7期（2001 / 07 / 01）

127 - 142

英文

知己難尋。雖然徐志摩(1897-1931)和吳經熊(1899-1986)，也就是本文作者的父親，彼此之間的友誼，大約只持續了不超過十五年的歲月，從他們都還是青少年時一直到徐先生在1931年11月在一場空難中不幸罹難爲止。雖然短暫，就像吳經熊先生的公子所形容的，他們的感情是最爲「甜美」的。作者覺得這是一段擁有迥異個性的兩位先生之間的友誼。徐先生喜歡活動及行動，但是吳先生則是喜好休憩和寧靜。因爲徐先生突然的悲劇性逝世，所以作者只能推想，這段友情如果能繼續而且達到圓滿，那將會如何發展。

Rare are genuine friendships. Although the relationship between Hsu Tse-mou (1897-1931) and John C.H. Wu (1899-1986), the author's father, lasted no more than a decade and a half from the time they were teenagers until Hsu's tragic death by air crash in November, 1931, theirs was, nonetheless, as the younger Wu later said, a ”most delicious” one. It was a friendship which Wu felt was between two men very much different in nature, one-Hsu-who delighted ”in motion and activity”, while the other-Wu-who loved ”rest and repose”. Because of Hsu's fateful demise, one can only conjecture as to how the friendship might have gone had it been allowed to grow and reach fruition.