英语随笔- 小镇遗都,古风意境.03- The Big Story of Niagara-on-the-lake

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英语随笔- 小镇遗都,古风意境.03- The Big Story of Niagara-on-the-lake

- The big story from an elder-man, in Town
 
People varied in choosing their destinations for a vacation or a night escape from their daily life. There are places like Shanghai, the famous economical town developed from a fishing village, and ancient capital like Hong-Zhou in China late became tourist place or lake-city. Among the all, I belong to those who love smaller places.

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-“The biggest story of the town is this town was a capital of “lower Canada Place” during the war between Canada and America in late 17th” And since then, the town became so famous, and people lived here and reserved same style as much as it was, and so…”

“Yeah”? I was thinking something……., “But our city changed a great deal, the city, and the country, China is becoming a number two car-market now in the world”.
He nodded to agree. Then he asked me what I was doing back China? I saw the lighting flame of curiosity behind his eye-glasses. I was so happy this respected old gentleman still so interested in China. But so foolish I was, in answering him choosing the vocabularies, I said, “I was pioneering China market for a Swiss Brand, then, in …..” “Hum, I am so sorry, I think I have to go ….”

To my great regret, that he stopped the conversation, and slowly move to walk back to his house; he is a very kindly, and intellectual looking elder man, in his 70’s and the way he speaks very faster, and with a strong accent, maybe British, I hate myself can not remember his name, as I usually do; his voice is still in my mind when I looked him turning to his way back…slowly. “I lived in Toronto, and came weekly for the week end…. My neighbor in Toronto is still in Beijing working for “CPC” business of investing in China… “Why he stopped the conversation all of sudden?
I lost in puzzling. My mind empty, but those words “Hang-Zhou, Nan-Jin, Shanghai, 1979, 
Niagara-on-the-lake, China, Red-Army, Doctor白,” and his voice is repeating in my mind, aimlessly, as I walked along towards the street of the Town…….
 

To be continued…… 
 
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湖畔呓者,习于: 729words. Monday, October 02, 2006
 
No man is an island, entire of itself..;

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[此贴子已经被作者于2006-10-11 22:56:12编辑过]