It did occur to me that the effect of good literature may be as dizzying as that of alcohol.

  • -- Pamela Dean 帕梅拉·迪恩

我确实想到,好的文学作品的效果可能和酒精一样令人头晕目眩。

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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

书的好处在于被人阅读。书是由一些符号组成的,这些符号代表着其他符号,而这些符号又代表着事物。如果没有眼睛去阅读,一本书所包含的符号就不会产生任何概念;所以它是哑的。

I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago.

我相信你们都知道,随着把这些书放在一起所花的时间,所有的东西都可能突然开始同时出现,即使我在一到五年前写过任何东西。

A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

对阅读的爱好,正确地加以引导,其本身就必须是一种教育。

You're either reading a book or you're not.

你要么读书,要么不读书。