平衡的建筑

曾有一次,我听一位德国哲学家（他是德国人,真的,并且他是一名哲学老师）详尽地评判了我的一篇小说,他不知道我在听众之中。会后,我站起来想与他讨论一下他阐述中的某些观点,心想,那可是强烈的批评,我说：“毕竟,碰巧,我是这个故事的作者。”“噢”,他说“,你是艾萨克·阿西莫夫？我很高兴有您的光临,我非常钦佩您的工作,

THE ARCHITECTURE OF BALANCE

Once I listened to a German philosopher （he was German, really, and he was a teacher of philosophy） who examined in detail one of my narratives, not knowing that I was among the audience, After the conference, I got up to discuss some points of his interpretation, and I said, thinking that it would be fulminated： ＂After all, by chance, I am the author of the story.＂