和电影明星一起旅行 英文故事(10)
“But I understand.”
“O.K., here’s what I’m going to do. Just before I leave the airport, I’m going to come up to you and say, ‘Do you work here?” ’
“It’s O.K. I really do understand.”
“No, this is important to me. I’ll say, ‘Do you work here?’ And then you say your part.”
“What’s my part?”
“You say, ‘No. “’
“O.K.”
“And I’ll know what you mean. We’ll know the secret meaning.”
“O.K.”
We looked into each other’s eyes in a way that said that nothing else mattered as much as us. I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time all those boys had faded away and my parents were still there. I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would.
“O.K., here’s what I’m going to do. Just before I leave the airport, I’m going to come up to you and say, ‘Do you work here?” ’
“It’s O.K. I really do understand.”
“No, this is important to me. I’ll say, ‘Do you work here?’ And then you say your part.”
“What’s my part?”
“You say, ‘No. “’
“O.K.”
“And I’ll know what you mean. We’ll know the secret meaning.”
“O.K.”
We looked into each other’s eyes in a way that said that nothing else mattered as much as us. I asked myself if I would kill my parents to save his life, a question I had been posing since I was fifteen. The answer always used to be yes. But in time all those boys had faded away and my parents were still there. I was now less and less willing to kill them for anyone; in fact, I worried for their health. In this case, however, I had to say yes. Yes, I would.
第五人格约瑟夫和卡尔的故事
