揟he Last of the Justo,” I read. “By Andre SchwarzBart. What's it about?”,” he said. “Next week.”sitting outdoors on an uncomfortable kitchen chair. Within a few pages, the yard, the summer, disappeared, and I was plunged into the aching tragedy of the Holocaust, the extraordinary clash of good, represented by one decent man, and evil. Translated from French, the language was elegant, simple, impossible to resist. When the evening light finally failed I moved inside, read all through the night.
To this day, thirty years later, I vividly remember the experience. It was my first voluntary encounter(接触、遇到)with world literature, and I was stunned (震惊) by the concentrated power a novel could contain. I lacked the vocabulary, however, to translate my feelings into words. So the next week when Mr Ballou asked, “Well?” I only replied, “It was good.”then,” he said. “Shall I suggest another?”and was presented with the paperback edition of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa (a very important book on the study of the social and cultural development of peoples—anthropology (人类学)).Mr Ballou never paid me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught anthropology at Dartmouth College. Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had assumed(假定) it to be, not a lighthearted, instantly forgettable escape in a hammock (吊床) (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too). A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an internal in the daily business of things, will change the course of all that follows. ________.
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