The Bookstore

去美国留学的,大概没有不打工的。90％的美国学生都回家过圣诞节了,校园顿时冷清。书店还有必要开门吗?有什么活可以干呢?当两个打工的女孩搬运着沉重的旧书,步履打颤时,坐在电脑后的那个gentleman会来助一臂之力吗?打工得来的辛苦钱,需要交所得税吗?一场辛苦,有何感慨?这些问题,本文均作了坦诚的交代。 最可读的部分也许是文末的一段议论: I made some 700 dollars, 100 of which went to pay the income tax. 1 made them all through my hands, hour by hour. The linkage between labor and pay has never been so clear to me before. I am happy and content. You work, and get pay. This is the basic form of existence in a human society. A farmer would work from sunrise to sunset and barely make ends meet. He thinks this is not-sobad life. A millionaire living on bank interest would want to kill himself when he makes a bad investment that destroys half of his wealth. 这也许就是生活。】