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Taking in summer guests was my parents’ way of helping young academics revise a manuscript before publication. For six weeks each summer I’d have to vacate my bedroom and move one room down the corridor into a much smaller room that had once belonged to my grandfather. During the winter months, when we were away in the city, it became a part-time toolshed, storage room, and attic where rumor had it my grandfather, my namesake, still ground his teeth in his eternal sleep. Summer residents didn’t have to pay anything, were given the full run of the house, and could basically do anything they pleased, provided they spent an hour or so a day helping my father with his correspondence and assorted paperwork. They became part of the family, and after about fifteen years of doing this, we had gotten used to a shower of postcards and gift packages not only around Christmastime but all year long from people who were now totally devoted to our family and would go out of their way when they were in Europe to drop by B. for a day or two with their family and take a nostalgic tour of their old digs.
为了指导年轻学者在出版之前修改书稿，我父母年年接待夏季来客。每年夏天有六个星期，我必须腾出卧室，搬进走廊尽头那间祖父曾经住过的狭小的多的邻室。寒冬时节，当我们告别这里住进市区，那个阁楼的小房间就成了临时的工具间、储藏室，并且谣传与我同名的祖父长眠之后仍在那里面磨牙。夏季访客无需支付任何费用，基本上能够随心所欲使用屋内的任何设施，只要每天花一个小时左右帮父亲处理来往信件和分类文件即可。他们最后往往成了我们家的一分子。连续接待了十五年后，如今不只是圣诞时节，一年到头，明信片或礼物都会如雪片般飞来。寄东西来的人宛如我们家的一分子，每次来到欧洲，总会带着家人特地造访 B城几日，到曾经短暂落脚的地方来趟怀旧之旅。
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