真生鏽的讀一個，紀念剛剛去世的我最喜歡的作家之一 Nora Ephron

 

Have We Met? 

 

 Have we met? I think we’ve met. But I can’t be sure. We were introduced, but I didn’t catch your name because it’s so noisy at this party. I’m going to assume we know each other, and I’m not going to say, “Nice to meet you.” If I say, “Nice to meet you,” I know what will happen. You’ll say, “We’ve met.” You’ll say “We’ve met” in a sort of aggressive, irritable tone. And you won’t even tell me your name so I can recover in some way. So I’m not going to say, “Nice to meet you.” I’m going to say, “Nice to see you.” I’ll have a big smile on my face. I won’t look desperate. But what I’ll be thinking is, please throw me your name. Please, please, please. Give me a hint. My hu*****and is likely to walk up, and I’ll have to introduce you, and I won’t be able to, and you’ll know that I have no idea who you are even though we probably spent an entire weekend together on a boat in 1984. And even though I have a secret signal with my hu*****and that involves my pinching him very hard on the upper arm, a signal that means, “Throw your name at this person because I have no idea whom I’m talking to,” my hu*****and always forgets the secret signal and can’t be counted on to respond to my pinching, even when it produces a bruise. I would like to chew my hu*****and out about his forgetfulness on this point, but I’m not exactly in a position to do so since I myself have forgotten (if I ever knew it) the name of the person I’m talking to.

 

Nora Ephron (May 19, 1941 – June 26, 2012) was an American journalist, essayist,playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger.

Ephron is best known for her romantic comedies and was nominated three times for theAcademy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay): for Silkwood, When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle. She won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplayfor When Harry Met Sally.... She sometimes wrote with her sister Delia Ephron.^[1] Her last film was Julie & Julia.^[1] She also co-authored the Drama Desk Award-winning theatrical production Love, Loss, and What I Wore.^[1][2]

 

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• SF -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 11:29:31

• 等美風的金磚，肯定很多。最近VOA也沒見貼了？ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 11:40:06

• 你不來，我也懶的貼了。好久不讀，我的英語爛到家了。：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 11:41:15

• 不行，哪能這麽說呢。 -非文學青年- ♀ (93 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 11:53:57

• 這兩天讀了一個，哈哈，自己把自己嚇著了。過兩天會貼出來。：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 11:59:15

• 讀得還是那麽有美味！羨慕！鼓掌！小磚渣當再見麵禮！：） -beautifulwind- ♀ (2086 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 12:13:59

• 謝謝金耳朵！還是有老毛病沒有解決。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 13:45:47

• you sound almost like a different person! -forgotmyID- ♀ (515 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 12:33:16

• thanks! you just give me a "sandwich" evaluation? haha -非文學青年- ♀ (250 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 13:52:18

• 行雲流水， 一氣嗬成， 非常好。 -jingbeiboy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 12:48:28

• 真滴？竹馬寬容了，謝謝鼓勵！ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 13:53:02

• that's how I felt. No kidding. -jingbeiboy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 14:17:18

• Co: 行雲流水， 一氣嗬成， 非常好。 -EnLearner- ♂ (143 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 20:12:56

• 愚公要搶走竹馬？有好戲看了，哈哈 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 22:16:34

• Hi! Sis, welcome back! -NewVoice- ♀ (277 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 21:04:01

• thanks, Sis! miss you too! -非文學青年- ♀ (734 bytes) () 07/06/2012 postreply 22:30:17

• Happy to see you bubbling! -rockcurrent- ♂ (0 bytes) () 07/07/2012 postreply 10:18:57

• very nice reading, fluent and animated! -DailyTranslation- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/07/2012 postreply 13:11:31

• 謝謝RC和聽風大俠！請多指教。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 07/07/2012 postreply 19:21:15