Chapter 87 old maugham's wit

old maugham's wit Maugham, an old British writer, is eighty-seven years old this year (1961), and he is one of the very few contemporary writers One of the best-selling and well-written authors.The total number of his booklet sales is said to have exceeded More than 60 million copies.The Soviet Union also has his market, and has a large readership.The British say, There are very few Chinese writers who can enter the Soviet Union to earn royalties, and Maugham is one of them. Maugham is not too old to be confused, and he is still funny, which is the rarest thing.Recently a reporter visited

He wanted to talk to him about his feelings about "death", but he made some sarcasm.He said the question of "birth" I haven't sorted it out yet, so where is the time to talk about "death"?Quite like Confucius said "how can you know death if you don't know life". Maugham told a joke.He said that when he was eighty years old, a broker from a life insurance company asked He was doing business and sent him a statistical form of life limit.Because he was eighty years old, he checked What is the explanation under the age of eighty? See the figures they noted: they still have an average of five years and nine months to live.

He said that he was eighty-seven years old this year, nearly two years beyond their budget, and I was really sorry for that a statistician. Somerset Maugham said that he has stopped doing one thing now, that is, he will no longer participate in other people's events. Funeral, he was going to reserve this right to himself. Maugham loved traveling all his life.He said that travel is not only fun in itself, but also for a person who is engaged in For those who write, they can also learn from the subject matter of writing.He did not travel to India at first because He thinks that all the subjects available for writing in India must have been written by Kad Baling, so he doesn't want to go.

Later, he finally went, but he regretted not going earlier, and did not go until he was old, because he discovered that India There are many other subjects for writing about, which Ji Bailing has never even touched. On one occasion, he said, Cadbury, traveling in the West Indies, wrote to him that there was much there to write about It is the subject of short stories, but it is not within the scope of his writing, so he does not want to write, and persuades Maugham to read it. Look.Maugham went there later, but found that he could not write about those themes. Maugham received a letter from a female reader not long ago, which was very interesting.the young female reader

Tell him: "I have read your works, and I think you must be a great lover, and I want to love you very much." you.Later I checked the "Dictionary of Celebrities" and found that you were older than my grandfather, so I had to give up This is the idea. " Maugham said, from this we can see that love is by no means spiritual, but inseparable from the body.