摘要
在上学的日子里，我只有一次在课堂上哭过鼻子。那是上一年级的第一个星期，在斯库吉老师的课堂上，当时我们正在学写手写体。“Q”——这个字母实在讨厌。不过这倒不是我笔划写不对，而是我握笔的姿势有问题：
In all my years of school, there was only one time I cried in class. It was the first week of first grade--Mrs. Scougie＇s room--and we werelearning cursive. Q. I hated the letter. But it wasn＇t that I couldn＇t get the strokes right. It was the way I held my pencil： with four fingers around the base, not three--an apparent crime against writing protocol.
