核心畫面

You can picture a hand closing a paper packet of dried roots and flowers. The plant is the medicine. Everything this term means sits around that one picture: sometimes the words point at the packet itself, and sometimes they step back and point at the whole way of working that produced it — the knowing which root, the weighing, the boiling, the advice that comes with it.

可以想成一個畫面:有人把曬乾的根和花折進一張紙包裡。植物本身就是藥。這兩個字的意思都繞著這個畫面轉。鏡頭拉近,看到的更多收起可以想成一個畫面:有人把曬乾的根和花折進一張紙包裡。植物本身就是藥。這兩個字的意思都繞著這個畫面轉。鏡頭拉近,看到的是那包東西;鏡頭往後拉,看到的是背後那一整套做法——知道哪種根治哪種毛病、怎麼秤、怎麼煮、要交代病人什麼。同一個畫面,遠近不同而已。