The Third Tuesday第三個星期二We Talk About Regrets我們聊了聊悔恨The next Tuesday, I arrived with the normalbags of food——pasta with corn, potatosalad, apple cobbler——and something else: a Sony tape recorder.接下來的一個星期二，我帶著正常份量的食物到了莫瑞家——有拌著谷物的意大利面，土豆沙拉，蘋果酥皮餡餅以及另外一樣東西：一臺索尼錄音機。I want to remember what we talk about, I told Morrie.我想記住我們說過的話，我告訴莫瑞。I wantto have your voiceso I can listen toit...later.我想記錄下你的聲音，這樣以后我也可以聽了。"When I'm dead."“當我死了以后。”Don't say that.别這麼說，不是這個意思。He laughed.莫瑞笑起來。"Mitch, I'm going to die. And sooner,not later."“米契，我是要死了呀。而且並不是以后而是很快就會死。”He regarded the new machine.他打量著這臺新奇的機器。"So big," he said.“真大。”他說道。Ifelt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to thinkthat a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear.我有種冒犯人的感覺...