如果你曾经认真观察过一个收费亭,就会知道你与亭子里工作人员的关系一点儿也不亲密,尽管这些人在你的生命中常常出现,可这根本算不上什么邂逅。你只是递给他钞票,有时候对方也许会给你找钱,然后你开车继续上路,和他的联系仅此而已。我无数次路过奥克兰一旧金山海湾大桥,并且细致地观察过这条路上的17家收费亭,那么多收费的人却没有一个会让我记得住。1984年的一天,快到中午的时候,我驱车到旧金山吃午饭,开到一个收费亭旁,耳边传来很响的 If you’ve ever looked through a toll booth, you know that you are not intimate with the staff in the pavilion, and although these people often appear in your life, this is not a real encounter. You just handed him the banknotes, sometimes the other party may give you money, and then you drive on the road, nothing to do with him. I passed the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge countless times and watched the 17 tollbooths on this road in detail, but none of the paid people made me remember. One day in 1984, approaching noon, I drove to San Francisco for lunch, next to a toll booth, and heard loud ears