生死本無界，每個人所恐懼的并不是死亡本身，而是死亡的過程，那波濤滾滾，生命不過是河水中濺起來的朵朵浪花，轉瞬即逝。然而靈魂卻可以不死，它在河流中 穿行了千年，一次次地在每一個個體的閃光中呈現出來，生死之河承載著靈魂之光曲曲折折地前行，我們在其中感到愉悅，也許會歡歌起來。

The door of Henry’s lunchroom opened and two men came in. They sat down at the counter.

"What’s yours?" George asked them.

"I don’t know," one of the men said. "What do you want to eat, Al?"

"I don’t know," said Al. "I don’t know what I want to eat."

Outside it was getting dark. The street-light came on outside the window. The two men at the counter read the menu. From the other end of the counter Nick Adams watched them. He had been talking to George when they came in.

"I’ll have a roast pork tenderloin with apple sauce and mashed potatoes," the first man said.

"It isn’t ready yet."

"What the hell do you put it on the card for?"

"That’s the dinner," George explained. "You can get that at six o’clock."

George looked at the clock on the wall behind the counter.

"It’s five o’clock."

"The clock says twenty minutes past five," the second man said.

"It’s twenty minutes fast."

"Oh, to hell with the clock," the first man said. "What have you got to eat?"

"I can give you any kind of sandwiches," George said. "You can have ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver and bacon, or a steak."

"Give me chicken croquettes with green peas and cream sauce and mashed potatoes."

"That’s the dinner."

"Everything we want’s the dinner, eh? That’s the way you work it."

"I can give you ham and eggs, bacon and eggs, liver..."