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但是，我畫的不是一頂帽子，畫裡代表的是一條蟒蛇正在消化著一頭大象。為了讓這些大人們能夠瞭解，我隻好又畫了一張畫：我把大蟒蛇肚子裡的環境畫了出來――這些大人們老是需求解釋。我的第二號作品是如許的：

Chapter 1

以是從當時起，我挑選了彆的一個職業，我學會了開飛機。我幾近飛遍了天下的每個角落。的確，地理學對我非常有效。飛過天下各地的我一眼就能辯白出中國和亞利桑那州。如果夜裡丟失了航向，如許的知識是很有代價的。

小時候，當時我還隻要6歲，看到一本描述原始叢林壯觀氣象的書，名叫《實在的故事》。書裡有一幅很出色的插畫，畫的是一條大蟒蛇正在吞食一隻植物，上麵就是那幅插畫的覆成品。

他們答覆我說：“一頂帽子有甚麼驚駭的呢？”

此次大人們做出的反應是：他們建議我把這些畫著看起來彷彿敞開肚皮的蟒蛇的丹青放在一邊，然後把精力放在地理、汗青、計算和語法上。這就是為甚麼，在我六歲時，我放棄了成為一名職業畫家的斑斕胡想。第一號、第二號作品的不勝利，令我非常懊喪。這些大人們本身甚麼都不懂，還需求孩子們不竭地、不竭地解釋給他們聽，這真是令人感到膩煩。

So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world; and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night, such knowledge is valuable.

我想了很多熱帶叢林的冒險，幾經思考，我拿起彩色鉛筆終究勝利地完成了我人生中的第一幅繪畫。我的第一號作品，它是如許的：

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: "Frighten Why should any one be frightened by a hat"My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: