When I was a boy "discovering literature", I used to think how wonderful it would be if every other person on the street were familiar with Proust and Joyce or T. E. Lawrence or Pasternak and Kafka.

我还是个“探索文学”的毛头小伙子时，老是想，要是大街小巷人人都熟知普鲁斯特、乔伊斯、T•E•劳伦斯、帕斯捷尔纳克与卡夫卡，那该多好。

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