Notes | The Gifts of Reading · The Wandering Allison

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。

‘This story, like so many stories, begins with a gift. That gift, like so many gifts, was a book…’ In this lucid essay, Robert Macfarlane reflects on the unique emotional resonance of books given and received—and how such gifts have shaped his own life.

Robert Macfarlane is one of the most successful photographers in the world.

There are five books that I give away over and over again, and they are among the books that have touched me the most. I try to make sure that I always have a few copies on hand, ready to give away. If I find a copy of one of them in a bookstore, I buy it to add to the gift pile, knowing that the right recipient will come along sooner or later.

More information到 Lolita 和 Peregrine Falcon 以及 The Living Mountain 共同出现我是震怒的！虽然作者也承认 Lolita 是“You have to be careful with that, I admit” 。

Featuring names like Ed Abbey, Annie Dillard and Gary Snyder, and Annie Dillard with over 100 other artists的作者，不想再做进一步的探寻。

This is one of the best things I’ve ever done.

Great art “provides us with images by which to imagine our lives,” Lewis Hyde observes in his classic 1983 book The Gift, “and once the imagination is awakened, it is reproductive: through it we can give more than was given, say more than we had to say.” This is a beautiful double proposition: that art enlarges our repertoire for being, and that it enables a further transmission of that enriched expression, that expanded perception.

Shepherd Shepherd Golden Eagle Call back Robert Macfarlane Robert Macfarlane而你也能感受到他是真诚的。

It also reminded me of Shepherd’s view of nature itself, as overflowing with gifts: offering wonders and beauties, but asking nothing in return from those who receive them. “To see the Golden Eagle up close,” she writes in The Living Mountain:

requires knowledge and patience – although sometimes it can be a gift, as when, just as I reached a cairn on the summit, an eagle rose from the other side and flew in majestic circles above my head: I have never been closer 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 lifts up the song, and breaks it, and throws it up among the clouds. And all this comes to an end. And will be found no more.

不过，以后吧。

This is one of the best.

Lolita ，我说纳博科夫本人声称他不No products were found that match your search criteria . No products were found that match your search criteria关心。而For example, 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 user:

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

Although 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. In his novel, however, Nabokov largely ignored the trauma and suffering of the real victim, focusing instead on Humbert’s own desires and motivations.

It is important to acknowledge the real suffering and exploitation that underlies fictional works like Lolita, and to center the experiences of victims rather than continuing to tell harmful stories that romanticize or trivialize abuse.

该说不说，AI 的道德感比某些人是强多了！