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内在性格的力量

内在性格的力量 When I was nine years old,I went off to summer camp for the first time.And my mother packed me a suitcase full of books,which to me seemed like a perfectly natural thing to do.Because in my family,reading was the primary group activity.And this might sound antisocial to you,but for us it was really just a different way of being social.You have the animal warmth of your family sitting right next to you,but you are also free to go roaming around the adventure land inside your own mind.And I had this idea that camp was going to be just like this, but better. I had a vision of 10 girls sitting in a cabin cozily reading books in their matching nightgowns.Camp was more like a keg party without any alcohol .And on the very first day, our counselor gathered us all together and she taught us a cheer that she said we would be doing every day for the rest of the summer to instill camp spirit.And it went like this: R-O-W-D-I-E, thats the way we spell rowdie. Rowdie, rowdie, lets get rowdie. So I couldnt figure out why we were supposed to be so rowdy,or why we had to spell this word incorrectly.But I recited a cheer. I recited a cheer along with everybody else, I did my best.And I just waited for the time that I could go off and read my books.But the first time that I took my book out of my suitcase,the coolest girl in the bunk came up to me and she asked me, Why are you being so mellow?mellow, of course, being the exact opposite of R-O-W-D-I-E.And then the second time I tried it,the counselor came up to me with a concerned expression on her face and she repeated the point about camp spirit and said we should all work very hard to be outgoing.And so I put my books away,back in their suitcase,and I put them under my bed,and there they stayed for the rest of the summer.And I felt kind of guilty about this.I felt as if the books needed me somehow,and they were calling out to me and I was forsaking them.But I did forsake them and I didnt open that suitcase again until I

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