背著筆記，到沃威克壯學

‘Try to choose carefully,… when the great choices must be made. When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.’

The Farthest Shore, Ch.3

碰到重大的選擇和決定時，要盡量小心。年少時，我曾經面對兩種選擇：『有所不為』與『有所為』的人生抉擇。結果，好像鱒魚躍向蒼蠅，我莽莽撞撞投入後者。可是，每項行為舉動都把你與它、與它的結果，緊緊捆縛在一起，促使你不斷行動。很少有機會像現在這樣，碰到行動與行動之間的一個空檔，可以停下來，只單純地存在，或是徹底想一想：你是誰。

蔡美玲/譯

必須做重大的決定時，一定要小心選擇。我年輕的時候，必須選擇無為(life of being)和有所為(life of doing)。然而我卻像一隻想要躍向蒼蠅的鱒魚，跳入後者。你的每一個做為，每一個行動，都會把你和它本身以及它帶來的後果牢牢綁在一起。接下來，你很少能在行動和行動之間找到像此刻能有的空間、時間，停下來單純地做你自己。或是去想想你自己，在這些年事之後，究竟是誰。

蔡淑芬/譯