Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves, they became chapters in it themselves.

  • -- Anne Fadiman 安妮·法迪曼

书籍书写了我们的人生故事,当它们堆积在我们的书架上时,它们自己也成为了其中的章节。

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Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

这些死去的作家,当他们的书被阅读时,他们能感觉到吗?黑暗中会不会出现一丝光亮?他们的灵魂是否被另一个读他们作品的心灵的触碰所触动?我希望如此。

Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

文学是一种人类活动,它对多样性、可能性、复杂性和艰巨性进行了最全面、最精确的描述。

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional.

嗯,我不喜欢第一点,也不知道最后一点。所以我真的希望中间的部分是例外。

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.

我思考着故事和它们的逻辑,想知道是否存在一本书这样的东西。