We live for books.

  • -- Umberto Eco 乌姆贝托生态

我们为书而生。

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

长时间、不分青红皂白地读书是一项特别吃力不讨好、令人恼火和筋疲力尽的工作。它不仅包括赞美垃圾,还包括不断地对那些没有任何自然感觉的书做出反应。

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant), but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of ‘sense’ of what is going on.

我们喜欢有很多细节的书,这些内容本身并不是完全相关的(或者实际上根本不相关),但是如果仔细阅读,就能对正在发生的事情提供一种“感觉”。

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.

没有人比我更清楚书中有多少废话。

A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

作家只是开始写一本书。读者完成它。