我在一张昆明老地图上看见标有“北门”字样的地方,才知道上世纪40年代你开办的那爿小书店,应该就在这个方位。六七十年前的昆明城区缩印在一页16开纸面上,形制清晰,线条简单,如同一枚不太规则的甲壳,表面被人刻下些几何图形——那是城内交叉的街道、静卧的山岭,还有水波荡漾的湖面。我就在这片甲壳上,在那些方的、圆的、三角的 I saw on the old map of Kunming marked “North Gate,” the place, only to know that you started in the 40s of that small bookstore, should be in this position. Sixty or seventy years ago, the city of Kunming miniature printed on a page of 16 open paper, clear shape, simple lines, as a less regular carapace, the surface was carved geometry - it is the city’s cross street, static Lying mountain, there are waves of the lake. I am in this carapace, in those who, round, triangular