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Gentlemen,
尊敬的主編
I suppose you'd be more interested in even a sleight-o'-hand trick than you'd be in an application for a position with your magazine, but as usual you can't have the thing you want most.
我猜，你們應該會覺得比起看一封寫給貴刊的求職信，連看個戲法都比這個更有趣。但世事不能盡隨人愿是常理。
I am 23 years old, six weeks on the loose in N.Y. However, I was a New Yorker for a whole year in 1930-31 while attending advertising classes in Columbia's School of Business. Actually I am a southerner, from Mississippi, the nation's most backward state. Ramifications include Walter H. Page, who, unluckily for me, is no longer connected with Doubleday-Page, which is no longer Doubleday-Page, even.
我今年23歲，在紐約賦閑六周。1930～1931那一整年，我曾是一個紐約客，在哥倫比亞大學研究生院專修廣告學。而我其實是個南方人，家鄉在密西西比州—我國最落后的一個州。橫生枝節的還包括沃爾特·h·佩奇，很可惜，他已經不再與《雙日》雜志有聯系了，而《雙日》雜志也不再是《雙日》雜志了。
I have a B.A. ('29) from the University of Wisconsin, where I majored in English without a care in the world. For the last eighteen months I was languishing in my own office in a radio station in Jackson, Miss., writing continuities, dramas, mule feed advertisements, santa claus talks, and life insurance playlets; now I have given that up.
我1929年在威斯康星大學取得文學學士學位，在大學里主修英語，不問世事。過去18個月里，我在密西西比州杰克遜市一家電臺的辦公室里冥思苦想、筆耕不輟，寫分鏡頭劇本、廣播劇、騾飼料廣告、圣誕老人臺詞、人壽保險短劇，現在我已經辭去了這份工作。
As to what I might do for you — I have seen an untoward amount of picture galleries and 15￠ movies lately, and could review them with my old prosperous detachment, I think; in fact, I recently coined a general word for Matisse's pictures after seeing his latest at the Marie Harriman: concubineapple.
至于我可以為貴刊做什么—我發現近來涌現了一批畫廊和15美分電影，我認為自己可以用一貫擅長的客觀筆觸寫評論。實際上，我近日在瑪麗·哈里曼畫廊看了馬蒂斯的新作品后，創造了一個詞來概括他的畫：“concubineapple（情婦與菠蘿）”。
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