Chapter 13 Chapter 12 The Reading Cabin in the Tree

Chapter 12 The Reading Cabin in the Tree 1 When I was a child, I thought of many ways to study.In the second half of junior high school, I was finally able to get the books I wanted to read.It wasn't because the books were interesting, though.If it is a book that attracts attention from the beginning, of course, there is no need to think about it.However, sometimes because of listening to teachers and older friends, I feel that a certain book should be read, so I want to read it.But once the book is in hand, it is very difficult to read it after actually opening it. If you try to read it yourself and know that it must be a book written by an excellent scholar or writer, but it is not suitable for you, then give up and not read it or put it down and read it later.I already have a book case to store books like that in, and read them when I get older and find them interesting.

However, there are also books that I clearly think I should read but can't continue to read.What I woke up at the moment was "Tolstoy's Diary" published by Iwanami Bunko.To me, in any book of any kind, I would consider it a disgrace if I didn't read it to the end if I read ten pages. Because of this, you have to find a way.I created a place dedicated to reading this particular book.The flat land between my house and the river beach is the field cultivated by my mother.Once, I learned the name of the heavy spherical vegetable from a flip book, so I said to my mother: "If I live to be a hundred years old, I'll eat cabbage someday."

In this way, my mother actually asked someone to get the seeds, and planted vegetables for me with the leaves rolled into a circle just like the one written in the book. Because there was not enough food to eat during the war, my mother reclaimed the land.Later, wheat was also planted here, and it turned out that persimmon trees were planted here.Loquat and fig trees are planted on the field ridge built with stones that is one head higher than the river beach.The grass and trees start to sprout in spring, how long will those tender shoots grow tenderly in a day?I observe them with curiosity.In that small persimmon garden, it seems that both grandpa and father have improved the persimmon varieties.

There is a saying in the village that children cannot climb loquat trees.How do you pick the loquat?This really made my brother and I think about it many times.One year, it was some time after the fig harvest.Under the shadow of the leaves making dry sounds, we found a big fruit that was almost unbelievably large. "I'm so happy to be alive!" At that time, such words really came out of my head. There are also maple trees a little taller than those fruit trees.I laid boards where the trunk of the maple tree split into several branches, tied them with ropes, and built a hut on top of which I could use for reading.

This is a long, long time later.I took a job from TV to interview people from all over the world on how to eliminate nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs.I met Freeman Tyson at Princeton and other research institutes, and after talking about work, I asked about his only son.Because I saw a report in the newspaper that his son lived in a house built on a tall tree. "My son fell out of a tree," Tyson replied cheerfully. "Now he's out in Alaska, on a converted Native American canoe." I just read the books that I couldn't read anyway in the tree house specially used for reading.Even if I don’t read and eat, I go to see the situation of the tree house once a day. At that time, I always climb to the tree house with a book that I can’t read, and don’t read other books there.In this way, a habit is formed unconsciously, and next time I will bring a more difficult book to go up.

Now I have replaced the tree house with a tram.When I grow up, which one is the most important book can be correctly judged based on experience.Even so, there are books that are hard to keep reading. I go to the swimming club a few times a week, and on the tram going there, I read these books.Put that book in the backpack where you put your swimsuit and goggles.If it is a foreign language book, a dictionary is also added.In addition, only the pencil used for drawing lines is put in.Just get on the train and start reading that book.If you read it in the club's talking room until the swim started, you read it.

I often see junior high school students and high school students who ride the tram like me read comic books.Isn't it possible to watch such interesting things even at the desk, or during recess?If you go back and forth by car like this twice a day when you go to school, when you have nothing else to do and need to endure the 30 minutes, I suggest that you pack the books that you can’t usually read with book covers and put them in your backpack. 2 However, there are times when I put down the book in the tram to listen to the people next to me.It was the second week after the new governor of Nagano Prefecture was elected, and the female middle school students were talking about what they saw on TV that a certain bureau chief folded the business card given by the governor when he visited.

During the conversation, a female middle school student said: "Like a child." This sentence aroused my interest.Because when I was a child, I thought about this question myself.I remembered, so I looked through the dictionary and looked up how this situation is expressed in English. What caught my attention at first was the expression "like a child" and the expression "childish". If you say a saying, you will be very angry. Why? Open the "Guoyu Dictionary", the interpretation of "childishness" is that you are no longer a child, but you still have a childish accent.This is clearly derogatory, so I understand why I have the above feelings.Children sometimes are considered "childish", but that usually does not refer to any commendable behavior of the child.

And "like a child" does not contain any derogatory meaning, but because I am a child, I should strive not to be called "like a child" by an adult even if the adult has good intentions.I really want to add this to my own code of conduct, because I feel that I am a "childish" character, and I want to get rid of this. After I went to high school, I knew that in English, when saying "like a child", there is a compliment childlike and the opposite childish.Later, I had the opportunity to work in an American university. During my work, I gradually realized that when people's actions and speech attitudes are called childish, there is actually a stronger element of social criticism than I ever felt.

The criticism I heard from female junior high school students on the train was that adults working at the prefectural hall folded their business cards as childish. In contrast, another female middle school student said that my father also said the same thing at first, and my father also said: "I don't quite understand the term 'Establish Radiqu County Government'. This abstract term is really confusing." After arriving at the swimming pool, I was still thinking: If the teacher receives a letter from a junior high school student or a high school student, and the teacher writes back and says, I hope you can be flexible in both study and life, then if the student’s reaction is "This is too abstract, I don't understand."How should the teacher answer?

I think that's the answer.If you feel that the teacher's terminology is too abstract, then what does this word mean, you can look it up in the dictionary first. The word "radio" is firstly interpreted in Japanese as "high-style" and "elegant". It is enough to pay attention to this meaning when reading the classics.Next is "flexibility", "bending because of elasticity", this meaning exists in life.If you look up the usage of the verb "radio" and make a comparison, you will write: Sometimes it is also used to describe vegetation that bends due to weight, is bent by the wind, and rises and falls with the wind.This vividly expresses the appearance of "curvature".Remember this too.I think I will answer like this. Suppose a specific problem arises in your life that must be resolved within your means.For example, how should we live in today's world?Aren't there many such problems in our life? Try to think for yourselves whether you have considered this question in a "curved" way. "Radius" is indeed an abstract word, but at the same time it is also a word so concrete that it can become a kind of thinking.If you really feel that this word is very similar to "like a person", then, in the future, when you decide your own behavior and behavior, won't this word inspire you? By the way, the archaic verb "radio" I mentioned just now can also be used as a reference.It means that when a greater force is pressed down, it will not break without a "snap".This is commendatory.I can't think of those who have killed themselves without feeling sorry for them.Although I know that they must have their own serious problems, they still lack a little "flexible" spirit. There is a pejorative connotation in the interpretation of "rising with the wind".It is not good to give in to the pressure of teachers or seniors, or to bend down immediately when the pressure from the side makes you feel difficult.Remember this too. 3 My mother, who read in my cabin in the maple tree, plowed the fields, sowed the seeds, and harvested the vegetables, said nothing about it.The mother of the female teacher who lived in the neighbor's family said that it would be dangerous to fall off if she dozed off on it.Mom just replied that he wanted to do that himself.It seemed that she didn't take her words seriously, and the female teacher was still very angry because of this.On the one hand, my mother still picked up the small stones around the maple tree and leveled the surrounding area with dirt. When I was hunched over on the wooden boards of the small cabin and reading Ken, when I encountered a rare place where I couldn't read, I would immediately raise my head and look at the forest on the other side of the river, and then I would think of something else, while the brain continued. Thinking, just like running and not stopping immediately.I think that thinking at this time is more down-to-earth than usual. I remembered, and I realized that thinking consists in using language to think about this problem, also in the tree, what happened in the reading hut.I like to look out into the woods where every tree keeps going upwards.I remember I asked Bian's father, why does the tree keep growing upwards?I thought it would be nice if people (myself included) could do that too.At that time, in my thinking about human life, I wanted to include the feeling of "curvature", as well as the feeling of Upstanding, which is the English name of straightness and independence, which I didn't know until I went to college.