Boy39;sLife（奇风岁月英文版）.doc

Boys Life by Robert McCammon ???? ???? ???? ????This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. ???? ????“I Get Around.” Words and Music by Brian Wilson. Copyright ? 1964 Irving Music, Inc. (BMI). All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.???? ???? ?????We ran like young wild furies, where angels feared to tread. The woods were dark and deep. Before us demons fled. We checked Coke bottle bottoms to see how far was far. Our worlds of magic wonder were never reached by car. We loved our dogs like brothers, our bikes like rocket ships. We were going to the stars, to Mars we’d make round trips. We swung on vines like Tarzan, and flashed Zorro’s keen blade. We were James Bond in his Aston, we were Hercules unchained. We looked upon the future and we saw a distant land, where our folks were always ageless, and time was shifting sand. We filled up life with living, with grins, scabbed knees, and noise. In glass I see an older man, but this book’s for the boys. ???? ???? ?????I WANT TO TELL YOU SOME IMPORTANT THINGS BEFORE WE START our journey. ????I lived through it all. That’s one problem about relating events in first person. The reader knows the narrator didn’t get killed. So whatever might happen to me—whatever?did?happen to me—you can be sure I lived through it all, though I might be a little better or worse for the experience, and you can make up your own mind which. ????There might be some places where you’ll say, “Hey, how come he knows this event right here happened or this person said or did this or that if he wasn’t even there?” The answer to that question is that I found out enough later on to fill in the blanks, or in some cases I made up what happened, or in other cases I figured it ought to have happened that way even if it didn’t. ????I was born in J