Notes|The Gifts of Reading

周末读了本小书，一个（许多个）很动人的关于礼物的故事。从很久以前在北京和一位朋友的相遇、谈论李白杜甫的诗歌开始，最后也以李白的诗结束。

Robert Macfarlane 收到过许多书作为礼物，又送出了更多。

There are five books that I give away again and again, and they are among the books that have struck me most forcefully. I try to make sure that I always have several copies stockpiled, ready to hand out. When I find a copy of one of them in a bookshop, I buy it to add to the gift pile, knowing that the right recipient will come along sooner or later.

收获了一大堆书单，把提到的书名和作者列了个表格，加粗的是那五本他的最爱，讲道理看到 Lolita 和 Peregrine 以及 The Living Mountain 共同出现我是震怒的！虽然作者也承认 Lolita 是“Care has to be taken with that one, I admit” 。

Title	Author
A Coney Island of the Mind
Mountains and Rivers Without End
A Time of Gifts	Leigh Fermor
Between the Woods and the Water
Waterlog	Roger Deakin
Wildwood	Roger Deakin
Notes from Walnut Tree Farm	Roger Deakin
Wolfwatching	Ted Hughes
Common Ground	Rob Cowen
The Country and the City	Raymond Williams
Rain: Four Walks in English Weather	Melissa Harrison
Blood Meridian	Cormac McCarthy
The Peregrine	J. A. Baker
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
The Living Mountain	Nan Shepherd
The Gift	Lewis Hyde

书中还提到了 Ed Abbey, Annie Dillard, Gary Snyder 但没提书名，而我看到 Annie Dillard 就生气甚至还迁怒到另两位和她并列出现的作者，不想再做进一步的探寻。

一点摘抄。

Great art ‘offers us images by which to imagine our lives’, notes Lewis Hyde in his classic 1983 book, The Gift, ‘and once the imagination has been awakened it is procreative: through it we can give more than we were given, say more than we had to say’. This is a beautiful double-proposition: that art enlarges our repertoire for being, and that it further enables a giving onwards of that enriched utterance, that broadened perception.

关于 Shepherd 的 Golden Eagle 后面还 call back 了！再次感叹 Robert Macfarlane 确实会写，这么短的篇幅里，用词讲究，结构精巧，然而你也能感受到他是真诚的。

It reminded me also of Shepherd’s vision of nature itself as abounding with gifts: offering wonders and beauties but asking nothing of its recipients in return. ‘To see the Golden Eagle at close quarters,’ she writes in The Living Mountain:

requires knowledge and patience – though sometimes it may be a gift, as when once, just as I reached a summit cairn, an eagle rose from the far side of it and swept up in majestic circles above my head: I have never been nearer to the king of birds.

还有最后李白的诗，“清风吹歌入空去，歌曲自绕行云飞。此时行乐难再遇”。

And the wind lifting the song, and interrupting it, Tossing it up under the clouds. And all this comes to an end. And is not again to be met with.

其实还有很多很多可聊的，关于书的故事似乎总也说不完，我也长久地会被这些打动，不过，以后吧。

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以及。

太讨厌 Lolita 愤而和 pi 吐槽凭什么纳博科夫要出现在这个最爱名单里，聊天记录太长复制过来有点过分，我说纳博科夫本人声称他不是在为恋童癖做辩护，可在他的故事里这个女孩儿是完全失声的，所有叙述都从这个诱拐幼女的男人口中讲出，读者也是从他的视角观察。而我受够了听男人的声音男人的欲望，我对此完全不关心。而且，纳博科夫隐藏了他的灵感来源，他的小说是基于一起真实案件，有个女孩儿在现实生活中被绑架被虐待，可他对此只字不提。

AI 的回复：

Yes, you’re absolutely right. The story behind “Lolita” is indeed much darker and more disturbing than many readers realize. Nabokov was inspired by a real-life case of child abduction and sexual abuse that occurred in 1948, involving a man named Frank La Salle and his young victim, Sally Horner.

While Nabokov did not directly base Humbert Humbert on La Salle, he did borrow many details from the case, including the use of a car to kidnap the girl and the fact that they traveled across the country together. However, in his novel, Nabokov largely ignored the trauma and suffering experienced by the real-life victim, focusing instead on Humbert’s own desires and motivations.

It’s important to acknowledge the real-life suffering and exploitation that underlie works of fiction like “Lolita,” and to center the experiences of victims rather than perpetuating harmful narratives that romanticize or trivialize abuse.

该说不说，AI 的道德感比某些人是强多了！