法拉第 (Michael Faraday) 給瑟拉的信大意如下:
今天任何其他的事都不能做, 給你寫了一天的信. 由白天寫到深夜, 現在又由白天寫到快天亮了.
地板上遍是寫不成文的信稿所柔成的紙團. 現在我累極了. 當我默想你的同時, 好像機油, 氯氣, 鋼球, 水銀, 好幾十種東西在我腦裡亂轉.
這種不可收拾的局面, 我再也支持不下去了. 這樣辦吧: 你如果肯嫁給我呢, 我們就結婚; 不然, 就算了.
------錄自陳之藩的書 "一星如月" 當時, 陳之藩是憑著記憶譯出來的.
原文如下:
Royal Institution, Thursday evening [December 1820]
My Dear Sarah,
It it astonishing how much the state of the body influences the powers of the mind.
I have been thinking all the morning of the very delightful and
interesting letter I would send you this evening, and now I am so
tired, and yet have so much to do, that my thoughts are quite giddy, and
run round your image without any power of themselves to stop and admire
it.
I want to say a thousand kind and, believe me, heartfelt things to
you, but am not master of words fit for the purpose; and still, as I
ponder and think on you, chlorides, trials, oil, Davy, steel,
miscellanea, mercury, and fifty other professional fancies swim before
and drive me further and further into the quandary of stupidness.
From your affectionate
Michael
(來源: http://loveletterscentral.com/264/michael-faraday-sarah-barnard/)
忘記說了, 這封信之後, 他們就結婚了. :)
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