《本杰明巴顿奇事》(英文版)作者：菲茨杰拉德.pdfVIP

【《TXT 论坛》 ， 欢迎您来 TXTBBS推荐好书！ 】； Curious Case of Benjamin Button I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. Atpresent, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that thefirst cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air ofa hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr. and Mrs. RogerButton were fifty years ahead of style when they decided, one day inthe summer of 1860, that their first baby should be born in ahospital. Whether this anachronism had any bearing upon theastonishing history I amabout to set down will never be known. I shall tell you what occurred, and let you judge for yourself. The Roger Buttons held an enviable position, both social andfinancial, in ante-bellum Baltimore. They were related to the ThisFamily and the That Family, which, as every Southerner knew, entitledthem to membership in that enormous peerage which largely populatedthe Confederacy. This was their first experience with the charming oldcustom of having babies--Mr. Button was naturally nervous. He hoped itwould be a boy so that he could be sent to Yale College inConnecticut, at which institution Mr. Button himself had been knownfor four years by the somewhat obvious nickname of Cuff. On the September morning consecrated to the enormous event he arosenervously at six oclock dressed himself, adjusted an impeccablestock, and hurried forth through the streets of Baltimore to thehospital, to determine whether the darkness of the night had borne innew life upon its bosom. When he was approximately a hundred yards from the Maryland PrivateHospital for Ladies