落木千山天远大,塞雁一声万里霜。在这深秋时节,我这个一生在笔砚中讨生活的人,因年老衰病、视力剧减,本已中绝了“为他人作嫁衣裳”的事儿。孰料老友陈世基,却不远万里,寄来他即将问世的大作《征人笔踪》的书稿,要我为之作序。从青春年少到满头白发,交往50余年,推辞不得,我只好危坐窗前,逐篇阅读那数十万字的书稿,再还一次“文债”。 Chushan Tianyu big day, Seyou soon Miles Cream. In this late autumn season, my life-long discussion of life in the pen and ink, due to old age, sight loss, has been cut off “for others to marry clothes ” thing. Guessed his friend Chen Shiji, but miles away, sent him about to come out of the great masterpiece “strokes” manuscript, I want to preface. From young to young and white hair, more than 50 years of interaction, refusal not, I had no choice but to sit in front of the window, one by one read that hundreds of thousands of words of the manuscript, and then once again, “Wen debt.”