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"But they made him a commander and so he has to act like one. He doesn't know what he's doing. He's winning,but that scares him worst of all, because he doesn't know what he's winning, except that I have something to dowith it. Any minute somebody could find out that Rosen isn't some magic Israeli general who can win no matterwhat. He doesn't know why anybody wins or loses. Nobody does.""It doesn't mean he's crazy, Dink.""I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. We're not. I look in thelibrary, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a prettygood idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Childrenaren't in armies, they aren't commanders, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can takeand not get a little crazy."Ender tried to remember what other children were like, in his class at school, back in the city. But all he couldthink of was Stilson."I had a brother. Just a normal guy. All he cared about was girls. And flying. He wanted to fly. He used to playball with the guys. A pickup game, shooting balls at a hoop, dribbling down the corridors until the peace officersconfiscated your ball. We had a great time. He was teaching me how to dribble when I was taken."Ender remembered his own brother, and the memory was not fond.Dink misunderstood the expression on Ender's face. "Hey, I know, nobody's supposed to talk about home. Butwe came from somewhere. The Battle School didn't create us, you know. The Battle School doesn't createanything. It just destroys. And we all remember things from home. Maybe not good things, but we remember andthen we lie and pretend that-- look, Ender, why is that nobody talks about home, ever? Doesn't that tell you howimportant it is? That nobody even admits that-- oh hell.""No, it's all right," Ender said. "I was just thinking about Valentine. My sister."第 117 页 共 340 页http://www.en8848.com.cn/ 原 版 英 语 阅 读 网