我和苏策同志是名副其实的同代人。在年龄上他虽然略小于我,但我同他的友谊交往,却至少可以回溯到五十七年以前,那时,我们都还是十四、五岁的少年人。我们的友谊,是在抗战前北平的运动场上的游泳池边开始的。那时,我当然绝不会料到,在事隔若干年之后,我们会走上同样的生活之路和文学之路。历史和时代把我和他同时推上了殊途 Comrade Su and I are truly contemporaries. Although he was a little younger than I was, I was friends with him, but I can go back at least fifty-seven years ago. At that time, we were still fourteen or five-year-olds. Our friendship began with the swimming pool on the playground in Peiping before the war of resistance against Japan. At that time, of course I would never have expected that after a few years from now, we will embark on the same road to life and literature. History and time put me and him at the same time on the road