那個年輕的獄卒發覺囚犯們每次體格檢查時身長的逐月增加都是在脖子之後,他報告典獄長說:「長官,窗子太高了!」而他得到的回答卻是:「不,他們瞻望歲月。」
仁慈的青年獄卒,不識歲月的容顏,不知歲月的籍貫,不明歲月的行蹤;乃夜夜往動物園中,到長頸鹿欄下,去逡巡,去守候。
GIRAFFE
After the young prison guard noticed that at every physical mination all the increases in the prisoners’ heights were in their necks, he reported to the warden: “Sir, the windows are too high!” But the reply he received was: “No, they are looking up at Time.”
The kindhearted young prison guard did […]