Lee also remembers a Japanese instructor in his second year of junior high, a Mr. Matsumoto, who introduced his class to the work Souvenirs Entomologiques by the French scientist Jean Henri Fabre (1823-1915). To this young son of a country squire, the book's depictions of various insect behaviors represented a strange and alien world, and even a somewhat frightening and repelling one.
他還記得中學 2 年級的導師松本先生，介紹他們讀法國昆蟲學家法布爾的名著《昆蟲記》，書中形形色色的昆蟲行為，是這位鄉紳少爺陌生、疏離，甚至感到害怕、厭惡的世界。