几个月前,华东师大中文系文贵良教授打来电话,也发来邮件,说学校要为钱谷融先生的99岁诞辰出一本书,望我也能写点文字。我犹豫了一下,答应了,后来却没有写。如今在高校,似乎有个不成文的规矩:如果没有读过某位先生的博士,似乎就不能算是某位先生的弟子。照此说来,我没有资格来写这样的文章。 A few months ago, Professor Wen Guiliang, a professor of Chinese at East China Normal University, called and sent an email saying that the school should publish a book for Mr. Qian Gu Rong’s 99th birthday and hope I can write some words. I hesitated, promised, and later did not write. There seems to be an unwritten rule in colleges and universities nowadays: It seems that a doctor who has not read a gentleman can not be regarded as a disciple of a gentleman. As such, I am not qualified to write such an article.