不久前,我醒着躺在床上,希望得到与自己刚刚失去的东西相反的东西,而现在,醒着躺着,却希望得到自己无法拥有的东西,这确实是一种苦涩的幽默。她想,这并不是一种很有用的适应性。
(There was a certain bitter humor to lying awake wishing for something one cannot have, after lying awake not so long ago wishing for the opposite thing that one had just lost. Not a very useful sort of adaptability, this, she thought.)