Did your father actually send you a postcard from ravenna ?
您父亲确实从拉文纳给您寄过明信片吗？
I saw a blind man in ravenna , and was struck by the idea .
我在拉文纳看到一个盲人，便产生了创作的想法。
Once , long , long ago , almost forty years back , he passed through ravenna and sent me a postcard of one of these famous mosaics .
曾经在很久很久以前，大约四十年前吧，他经过拉文纳时给我寄来了一张这些著名的马赛克的明信片。
Ravenna is famous for its mosaics ; hordes of tourists move from one church to another , craning their necks to glimpse the dim lustre of tiny multicolored smalti high up under dusky vaults .
In this issue , tatyana tolstaya publishes the short story " see the other side . " Here , in a conversation withthe new yorker 's fiction editor , deborah treisman , she sheds light on the perils of becoming a writer , on her family , and on her connection to ravenna .
