And so I finally got to this city, and I'd done a little fractal model for the city just to see how it would sort of unfold -- but when I got there, I got to the palace of the chief, and my French is not very good; I said something like, "I am a mathematician and I would like to stand on your roof."
后来我终于来到这座城市，那时我对城市分形建筑已构建了一些模型， 想看看它与实际情况的符合情况-- 当我到了那儿，我去了酋长的宫殿， 我的法语说得不太好，当时大概对他说： “我是一名数学家，我想到你的屋顶上看看。”