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马库斯·梅灵不是三十四岁就是三十五岁,他自己也常常搞不清楚。他住着一套两居室的公寓,带一个小厨房,一个小阳台。跟他的邻居们不同的是,他没有电视。他不看电视,而是读探险小说。他最喜欢的是《白鲸》——已经读了四遍——也非常喜欢约瑟夫·康拉德和格雷厄姆·格林。他在一个机关里工作,在那里他拥有一张写字台、一个图章和许多支圆珠笔。电话他用不着。他的工作是审阅即将升职的人填写的表格,从中找出格式上的错误。如果发现了错误,他就把这份表格转给某个部门;如
Marcus Merling is not thirty-four or thirty-five, and he himself often does not know. He lives in a two-bedroom apartment with a kitchenette and a small balcony. Unlike his neighbors, he does not have television. He does not watch television, but read adventure novels. His favorite is Moby Dick - it has been read four times - and Joseph Conrad and Graham Green are also very much liked. He works in a government agency where he owns a writing desk, a stamp, and many ballpoint pens. He does not need the phone. His job is to review the forms that the person who is about to step up and find out the typographical errors. If an error is found, he transfers the form to a department;