老友以其新近翻译的一本有趣的书惠我，是法国当代哲学家米歇尔·塞尔（MichelSerre，一九三○—）八十年代写的《万物本原》。老友谦虚惯了，说这种亦哲亦诗、又像杂文的文字，不是他所熟悉的，不肯署本名，临时用了个笔名叫“蒲北溟”。嵇康说北溟是“溟溟无涯”的北海；塞尔 My friend, with his recent translation of an interesting book, benefited me as “the origin of all things” written by the French contemporary philosopher MichelSerre (1930) in the 1980s. Old friend modestly used to saying that this philosophy is also poetry, but also like the essay text, not what he is familiar with, refused to sign his real name, temporarily used a pen named “Pu Beiming.” Ji Kang said Beiming is “the sea Ming knows no boundaries” of the North Sea; Searle