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要知道,这世界分为两种类型的人:外出吃早餐者和在家吃早餐者。两种人交叉混合。他们可以相互订婚或联姻或进行愉快的交谈,但在根本上是界限分明的。你要么是这种人要么就是那种,你不可能两种都是。那年整个冬天—直到1969年春——我跟俄罗斯黑帮一起吃早餐。这不是什么令我骄傲的事情。它只是那么发生了。我对它无能为力,发怵,发慌,在布朗克斯区,贝尔蒙,186街咖啡馆,靠窗的桌子,12号台。
You know, this world is divided into two types of people: go out to eat breakfast and eat breakfast at home. Two kinds of people cross mixed. They can engage with each other or marry or have a pleasant conversation, but at the bottom of the line. You are either this or the kind, you can not be both. That winter all winter - until the spring of 1969 - I had breakfast with Russian gangsters. This is not what I am proud of. It just happened then. I am powerless, stammered and flustered, in the Bronx, Belmont, 186th Street Cafe, window-table, 12th station.