I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of such story as I have to tell, since for the most part it is nothing more than the account of a conversation that I had with Larry. I should add, however, that except for this conversation I should perhaps not have thought it worth while to write this book.
在此有必要敬告讀者,完全可以跳過這一章,并不影響讀者把握本書所敘述的故事脈絡,因為這一章的大部分文字記載的基本上都是我和拉里的一次談話。不過話又說回來,如果沒有這次談話,我覺得寫這本書也就沒有什么價值了。