文章基本信息

标题：This Shooting.
作者：Hadziselimovic, Omer
期刊名称：the new renaissance
印刷版ISSN：0028-6575
出版年度：2008
期号：March
语种：English
出版社：Friends of the new renaissance, Inc.

摘要：

 This Shooting   This shooting has gotten into our blood. Without shooting  (just like without your morning coffee) you can't get your day  going.  And do you remember how, at the start of the war, after a shell  burst a hush would fall, like the deadly silence when someone  in a bar blabbed something against Tito or the Party?  Shells have now gotten into our bones. When there is a silence,  you're as taut as a string. You keep thinking: My God, what are  they fixing for us now? With that silence they only instill more  fear into  our bones. But as soon as a heavy machine gun makes itself heard,  I loosen up right away, my wife begins making a pie,  the kids start chattering around the house. They are shooting  again--everything's  all right, then. Yesterday, back home from work,  I asked: was there any shooting while I was gone?  My youngest daughter told me: You should have seen, Dad,  how nicely two of them whizzed by!   (from The Polish Cavalry, 2002)

This Shooting.

Hadziselimovic, Omer

This Shooting

 This shooting has gotten into our blood. Without shooting
 (just like without your morning coffee) you can't get your day
 going.
 And do you remember how, at the start of the war, after a shell
 burst a hush would fall, like the deadly silence when someone
 in a bar blabbed something against Tito or the Party?
 Shells have now gotten into our bones. When there is a silence,
 you're as taut as a string. You keep thinking: My God, what are
 they fixing for us now? With that silence they only instill more
 fear into
 our bones. But as soon as a heavy machine gun makes itself heard,
 I loosen up right away, my wife begins making a pie,
 the kids start chattering around the house. They are shooting
 again--everything's
 all right, then. Yesterday, back home from work,
 I asked: was there any shooting while I was gone?
 My youngest daughter told me: You should have seen, Dad,
 how nicely two of them whizzed by!

 (from The Polish Cavalry, 2002)

Translated from the Bosnian by Omer Hadziselimovic