【生活常识教科书】Where_the_Blue_Begins(蓝调从何而起).pdf

更多好书请点击 WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS Christopher Morley 1 更多好书请点击 WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS TO FELIX and TOTO I am not free-- And it may be Life is too tight around my shins; For, unlike you, I cant break through A truant where the blue begins. Out of the very element Of bondage, that here holds me pent, Ill make my furious sonnet: Ill turn my noose To tightrope use And madly dance upon it. So I will take My leash, and make A wilder and more subtle fleeing* And I shall be More escapading and more free Than you have ever dreamed of being! 2 更多好书请点击 WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS CHAPTER ONE Gissing lived alone (except for his Japanese butler) in a little house in the country, in that woodland suburb region called the Canine Estates. He lived comfortably and thoughtfully, as bachelors often do. He came of a respectable family, who had always conducted themselves calmly and without too much argument. They had bequeathed him just enough income to live on cheerfully, without display but without having to do addition and subtraction at the end of the month and then tear up the paper lest Fuji (the butler) should see it. It was strange, since Gissing was so pleasantly situated in life, that he got into these curious adventures that I have to relate. I do not attempt to explain it. He had no responsibilities, not even a motor car, for his tastes were surprisingly simple. If he happened to be spending an evening at the country club, and a rainstorm came down, he did not worry about getting home. He would sit by the