曾錚的圖片故事（19）兔子與毛衣

曾铮

MY Pet Rabbits and Sweater 兔子與毛衣

Enjoying a sunny afternoon beside the Unnamed Lake of Peking University with my two pet rabbits. How did I manage to keep them from running away? Just tied them together. They did try very hard to run away; but as they always ran to different directions, so they ended up going nowhere, haha.

這是我上研究生時帶著我養的兩只兔子在北大未名湖邊曬太陽。咱夠前衛吧？那時還沒什麼人蹓貓蹓狗呢，咱已經蹓上兔子了。兔子可不像狗一樣聽話，也不像貓一樣聰明，怎麼防止它們不跑掉呢？簡單的很，把兩只綁在一起，這樣，雖然它們都各自想拼命逃竄，但因目標不一致，所以永遠互相牽扯，永遠在原地打轉。它們的呆樣讓大家笑到肚子疼。
By the way, the sweater I was wearing was designed and hand kitted by myself. I fell in love with kitting sweaters during the last six months in my university, when we had virtually no classes as everyone was preparing for the entrance examination for graduate school. I didn't need to sit the examinations as I had already been admitted by the graduate school of Peking University without examinations due to my VERY outstanding academic performance. Only two students had this honor.
另外，照片中的毛衣是我自己設計並手工織的。在四年大學的最後半年，我迷上了織毛衣，閒的。最後半年我們沒有課了，把時間留給大家準備考研究生。可是我因爲大學期間成績優異，已經被北大免試錄取爲研究生了，所以不用考試，因此沒有事幹，就迷上了織毛衣。
However, ten years later, I was sent to the Beijing Female Labor Camp for practicing Falun Gong. Apart from being shocked by electric batons, kicked and beaten up by the police and other criminals, we were also forced to hand kit all sorts of sweaters which were to be exported to foreign countries. The work load was so heavy that I even dared not wash my hands after using toilet as I couldn’t afford to waste even one minute on hand washing.
If you have ever bought a hand kitted sweaters made in China, they might have probably been kitted by people like me with blood and tears; and without any payment!
Anyway, after being released from the labor camp, I would never, ever, hand kit any sweaters.
不過，十年後，我因修煉法輪功被送入北京女子勞教所，除了遭受電棍電擊、踢、打、不讓睡覺外，還被強迫奴役勞作，做得最多的就是織毛衣，任務重到我上完廁所都不敢洗手的地步，因爲耽誤不起那一分鐘的時間。許多出口到海外的廉價「中國製造」商品，就是這樣用血與淚「製造」出來的吧。
總之，從勞教所出來後，我再也不可能織毛衣了，因爲與織毛衣相關的記憶太傷痛太可怕了。因此照片中這件，就成「絕版」了吧，特此哀悼一下。

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