The few trips I was allowed to take as a citizen of Socialist Romania did, of course, have moments of rapture for me, novice that I was. Yet New York remained a dream, so foreign and distant that I never imagined I would have the chance to compare illusion with reality.
作为社会主义罗马尼亚的公民，与纽约的几次邂逅的确曾给眼界狭窄的我带来过惊喜。但纽约对我来讲仍然是个梦，如此奇异和遥远，我从未期望有机会比较幻想和现实。我最终逃亡纽约与旅游毫不相关。在这无所不在、吞噬一切的魔鬼面前，突如其来的恐惧很快就化做了深深的迷恋。