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节目文稿:<br>Once when I was six I saw a magnificent picture in a book about the jungle, called True Stories. It showed a boa constrictor swallowing a wild beast. Here is a copy of the picture.<br><br>In the book it said:"Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing. Afterward they are no longer able to move, and they sleep during the six months of their digestion."<br><br>In those days I thought a lot about jungle adventures, and eventualy managed to make my first drawing, using a colored pencil. My drawing Number One looked like this:<br><br>I showed the grown-ups my mastepiece, and I asked them if my drawing scared them.<br>They answered,"Why be scared of a hat?"<br><br>My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Then I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so the grown-ups could understand. They always need explanations. My drawing Number Two looked like this:<br><br>The grown-ups advised me to put away my drawings...