I came back then to find the association which had sustained me in war and prison irrevocably dissolved and I wandered,like a kind of Rip van winkle,into a strange new world with nine years of unshared and incommunicable experience separating me from it.

• 于是我回来了，结果发现在战时和狱中支撑着我的那种伙伴关系无可挽回地破灭了，而我，就像一个时代的落伍者，漫步走进了一个陌生的新世界。9年来，无人作伴、无人交谈的经历把我与这个分离开来。