A child can’t be called Thames, no and not Nile either, for all his likeness to Moses. But I wanted to give him a river name, a name not bound to anything, just as the waters aren’t bound to anything.
一个孩子不能被称为泰晤士，不，也不能被称为尼罗河，因为他长得很像摩西。但我想给他起一个河的名字，一个不受任何约束的名字，就像水不受任何约束一样。