"I often think about that librarian who told me he had a smidgen of Chinese blood. What sailor or trader from what dynasty left behind a little of himself in that distant place? Did he load up with ivory and leave? Or did he live out his days there, far from his ancestral home?
「我常想到那跟我說過只有很少很少中國血統的館員，究竟是哪個朝代那個水手或商人，在遙遠的海島上留下骨血，他是滿載象牙而去，還是終老異鄉？