很親切。我81年來美第一個學校就是匹大,在那裏兩年,印象深刻。那時我住在 Posvar Hall (那時還叫 Forbes Quadrangle) 後麵的 Meyran Ave 上。下麵是我最近才寫的一段有關那時在匹大所見的回憶:
It was in the fall; a very nice day like today. It was late afternoon. I was leaving Posvar Hall to go home when I heard children whooping with joy and saw a group of school kids playing an impromptu ball game in front of the hall. They were running, they were jumping, they were laughing, they were grabbing the ball, they were throwing it high into the air; they were having a really good time. And then, amidst all that joy and laughter and childish exuberance, I spotted this happy little puppy. He was dashing and leaping and yelping with these kids. The kids clearly treated him like he was part of them; he clearly saw himself as no different from the boys. The boys and the puppy were gamboling in such harmony in that golden glow of the setting sun I almost couldn’t tell them apart. I remember thinking, as I was watching them, "There’s the way things should be. I wouldn’t mind staying here for life."