很好的自夸

          罗尔德·达尔很详细地写了他在中学时代获得愉悦的两件事情（Gamesand Photography）：比赛和拍照。在这两个事情上，他都获得了巨大的成功。比赛，是学校校队的队长。拍照，不仅是在学校内取得巨大的成功，也走出了校园，最后走向了世界。

          这里有一个相当精彩的细节描写：

The exhibition was rather a success, and masters who hardly ever spoken to me over the past four years would come up and say things like, ‘ It’s quite extraordinary ‘…’ We didn’t know we had an artist in our midst’… ‘Are they for sale?’

这是很好的自夸。用周围熟悉的人的那种，“我竟然不知道高手就在我身边”，来自夸。会有说服力，哪怕是读者，也会会心一笑，表示理解的。

还有一处细节，是最高奖项的罗列：

          You may not believe it, but when I was eighteen I used to win prizes and medals from the Royal Photographic Society in London, and from other places like the Photographic Society of Holland, I even got a lovely big bronze medal from the Egyptian Photographic Society of Cairo,and I still have the photograph that won it.

这也是很好的自夸。用社会对你的评价，奖项就是其中一种。人毕竟是存在于社会上的，需要一定权威的机构来证明你的实力。所以，不能视奖项如粪土。可以在拿到之后，像居里夫人一样，不在乎。拿到之前，还是要在乎的，要去努力追求的。

          当然，对自己获奖的作品，要用自己的方式来诠释。譬如，他就把这副珍贵的照片描写为一次训练中的不经意的捕捉。完全是符合常理的一种获得，因为他是顶级摄影大师呀。

这是最高水准的自夸。好喜欢。

          This is the largest unsupported arch on earth and I took the photograph while I was training out there for the RAF in 1940. I was flying  over the desert solo in an old Hawker Hartbi plane and I had my camera round my neck. When I spotted the huge arch standing alone in a sea of sand, I dropped one wing and hung in my straps and let go of the stick while I took aim and clicked the shutter. It cam out fine.

他在1940年拍下了泰锡封拱门。