前不久,一个平平常常的黄昏,电话响起来:传出的讯息让我怔在了那里。接下去有几句没能听清,不得不请对方复述一遍。这个电话来自大洋彼岸,是美国出版索引协会创会主席罗伯特·鲍曼的助手打来的,传达的是一个噩耗:罗伯特·鲍曼于前一天去世。电话同时转告了老人生前的一个遗 Not long ago, an ordinary evening, the phone rang: the message sent me startled in there. There are a few did not hear the next, had to repeat each other. The call, coming from across the Atlantic, was made by an aide to Robert Bowman, founding chairman of the American Patents Indexing Association, conveying the sad news that Robert Bowman died the day before. At the same time, the phone told a legacy of the elderly