The leafiest and most hospitable tree was a chestnut at the edge of the world and of time, under whose ancient branches more than two colonels retired from the many civil wars of the previous century must have died while urinating.

• 枝叶最繁茂最热情好客的是一棵栗子树，它站在时空的尽头，在它古老的枝杈下面，有不止两个从上个世纪的许多次内战中退役下来的上校，肯定是在他们撒尿的时候死去了。