标题: 《Exegesis 》作者：- Nancy Kress【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-15 20:32 标题: 《Exegesis 》作者：- Nancy Kress【EPUB】 Short Story: *EXEGESIS* by Nancy Kress Nancy Kress just completed teaching a semester at the University of Leipzig. She says that nearly all of her German students confessed to not reading much SF before the course began --but they do now. Her most recent book is _Steal Across the Sky_ (Tor, February, 2009), which involves aliens, space flight, atonement for mega-crimes, and the nature of what we think we know about reality. The following story, however, is in an entirely different vein: a light-hearted look at what we think we know about language. 1950 from _Branson's Quotations for Book Lovers_ ed. Roger Branson, Random House _"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."_ One of the world's most famous quotations, this is the film version of Rhett Butler's (Clark Gable) immortal farewell to Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) in Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel _Gone With the Wind_, a crowning achievement of American literature. It occurs at the end of the film when Scarlett asks Rhett, "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" if he leaves her.