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我真想一夜致博，问了好几家书店都没有吴霭仪说的那本妙书：How To Become Ridiculously Well Read in One Evening。问她，她说不必买了，她找出来给我。今天果然送来了。薄薄一本企鹅，一九八五年初版，编者E O Parrott一九九零年六十六岁就去世了。视力衰退，辞去教职，专心写作，编撰过好几本很俏皮的妙书：How to Become Absurdly Well Informed About The Famous And The Infamous；How to be Tremendously Tuned In to Opera；How to be Well Versed in Poetry。他的《前言》一上来就说博览群书，梦寐以求（“To be well-read is surely highly desirable”），而生也有涯，书也无穷，总不能放弃电视节目放弃酒馆啤酒去死啃名着。他说想当年散文家蓝姆早就想出简化名着的绝招，编写《莎士比亚故事集》（Tales from Shakespeare），后人於是纷纷续貂，有的狗尾，有的貂尾，弄到后来，明明是正襟危坐的作品，都作兴羼入非非之想了（“It is now the fashion to seek for sexual meanings and pornographic undertones even in passages where almost certainly the author intended nothing of the kind”）。

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