童女之舞, My Favorite Fiction (1) 童女之舞 is my favorite short story and it has won the first prize of literature held by 聯合報, the most popular newspaper in Taiwan, in 1991. It is narrated by the first person, 曹麗娟 in the story, about the friendship, maybe lesbianism, between her and her best friend, 鍾沅, for almost fifteen years long. The writing style of the author is so beautiful that I was attracted by it when I read for the first time. At irregular intervals, I reread it to remind myself of the innocent feeling I find in the words. I have try to write down my own experience, what I consider to be as beautiful as the story between the girls, but I fail. I do not know why I am just not good at writing something in which my feeling is revealed. I will print some lines of 童女之舞 here and try to translate them into English in order to share the original with you on one hand, and hope to get corrections on the other hand.