2009年2月5日星期四

他們會怎麼說?

這種小孩叫我聯想起傳說中的紅衛兵。

Anyway,中港兩地的飛人們每年乘搭上30、40甚至50次round-trip並不出奇。如果他們的孩子問他們類似的問題,他們會怎麼說?

One day last October I found my five-year-old daughter, Rosa, leafing through my passport, which I'd left on the kitchen table in readiness for a work trip. She was studying it with a frown and I assumed she was upset by the boggle-eyed menace of the photo-booth portrait. But she was actually closely scrutinising several pages of blood-red immigration stamps marking multiple entries to the United States of America. The ensuing conversation went something like this:

"How many times have you been on a plane to America?"

"About 40."

"And how many trees have you planted?"

"No trees."

"I'm going to tell Miss White."

From "So, how many trees have you planted, Daddy?" (The Guardian)

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