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当有些写作想法落实到纸上之时,就已经冷却了。有的想法在脑子里酝酿良久,但再也没有进展,大概是因为知道,写不出什么名堂来。这些无望的想法大多会烟消云散;然而有那么一两个想法会留在脑海中。这个要讲述的想法就一直在我脑海中挥之不去。我第一次有这种冲动是在一九六一年的第一个或第二个星期,当时我在圭亚那高原地区,那是一个美洲印第安人的无人地带,位于委内瑞拉、巴西和如今叫做圭亚那的三个国家的
It has cooled down when some of the writing ideas come down on paper. Some ideas brewing in my mind for a long time, but no progress, probably because I know, can not write anything famous. Most of these hopeless thoughts disappear; however, one or two thoughts remain in my mind. The idea to be told has been lingering in my mind. The first such impulse I first had was in the first or second week of 1961, when I was in the high plateau of Guyana, an uncredited area of American Indians in Venezuela, Brazil, and now called Three countries in Guyana