消灭一个民族的第一步是抹去它的记忆。摧毁它的书籍,它的文化,它的历史。然后让某人写新书,制造新文化,发明新历史。不久之后,这个民族就会开始忘记它是什么以及它曾经是什么。
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.
A book is a meeting place, a shared space of imagination.
逝者多于生者,而他们的遗产在我们体内延续。
伟大的小说是作者与读者跨越时空的对话。