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The university informed me that before I could return I had to be cleared by their doctor.
大學通知我，我返校前需經校醫批準。
He picked up a folder and said, "You aren't going to be so taken up with your music, are you?"
校醫拿起一個文件夾，說道：“你不會忙著搞音樂，是吧？”
The question was probably one of their tricks, to test my sanity.
這個問題大概是他們的第一個把戲，是要考察我的精神是否正常。
He spoke again, saying that I ought to go out in the world and "meet the common man."
他又說，我應該到外面的世界走一走，“見一見普通人”。
I was silent.
我沒有吭聲，
I had seen the common man...
心想，我可見過普通人……
his guts spilled in a road, his limbs strewn in a field.
他的腸子流到了路上，肢體被拋撒到田地里。
The doctor told me that he could not recommend my returning to the college.
校醫告訴我，他不會推薦我回到大學學習。
It was only on the way home that I realized that he had been looking at the wrong folder.
在我回家的途中，我才意識到，他一直在看著別人的病例，不是我的。
So I looked for work and found it as a copyboy on a newspaper.
于是，我便開始尋找工作，在一家報社找到一份抄抄寫寫的工作。
If I stayed with it, I might someday be a reporter.
如果我干下去，也許有一天會成為一名記者。
But this didn't appeal to me.
但是我對這種工作不感興趣。
I didn't have the fascination with gossip that a reporter needs to have—
我并不熱衷于社會花邊新聞，而這是作為一名記者所必須具備的條件——
whether it is about a quarrel between nations or about a politician and his mistress.
不管是有關國家之間的爭端，還是關于某個政客和他的情婦的花邊新聞，記者都要感興趣。
Then I worked for an import-export firm.
隨后，我為一家進出口公司工作，
But this too did not appeal to me;
可這份工作也吸引不了我；
to succeed in this kind of business you have to think about the money you can make, and I preferred to think about other things.
要是想在這種事業上取得成功，你要會算計能賺多少錢，我寧愿想些其他的事情。
