Saturday, October 11, 2008
Yugan is reading me a book every night before bed: To Kill A Mockingbird, the famous novel by Harper Lee. There's one paragraph that truly impressed us. It speaks out what we have been thinking and feeling recently."......folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language." (page 136)
每晚睡前，我先生唸 Harper Lee 著名的、也是唯一的小說 To Kill A Mockingbird (1960)* 給我聽。其中有一段，他剛唸畢，我倆便不約而同地對視，心領神會，無奈它如實道出我們的心聲：
「人總是不喜歡週遭有人知道的比自己多，這會惹惱他們。你說對的話將無法對他們造成任何改變；他們必須自己去學習；當他們不願意學習時，你所能做的只有閉嘴或是和他們說一樣的話。」
* 中譯版書名：梅岡城故事
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