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我对亨利·密勒初度发生兴趣是40多年前的事了。那是1953年,我已自密苏里迁居至纽约,在一个爱好文艺青年的聚会中邂逅了一位娇小玲珑、谈吐不俗的犹太裔女士。她对当代文学的知识令我咋舌。50年代正是麦卡锡参议员迫害左派思想人士的时代,当时的知识青年集会都爱讨论政治与文学。我也常去那位女士在布鲁克林高地的公寓闲谈。星期日早晨在阳光照耀的大窗下喝咖啡谈论作家与自己的奢望自有其一番乐趣。在她的琳琅满目书架上我找到亨利·密勒的
My first interest in Henry Miller was more than 40 years ago. That was 1953 when I moved to New York from Missouri, where I met a petite Jewish Jewish lady with a good conversation. Her knowledge of contemporary literature makes me speechless. The 1950s were exactly the era when Senator McCarthy was persecuting the leftist thinkers, who at that time all loved to talk about politics and literature. I often go to the lady chatting in an apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Having fun with the writer and his own extravagance on a Sunday morning, drinking coffee under the sunlit window. I found Henry Miller in her dazzling shelves