Returning to a book you』ve read many times can feel like drinks with an old friend. There’s a welcome familiarity — but also sometimes a slight suspicion that time has changed you both, and thus the relationship. But books don’t change, people do. And that’s what makes the act of rereading so rich and transformative.
再次翻開你讀過很多遍的書，感覺就像和老友小酌幾杯。有一種愉悅的熟悉感——但有時也會有一絲輕微的懷疑，感覺時間已經改變了人與書，還有彼此的關係。但是書是不會變的，會變的是人。這就是重讀行為如此有趣多彩並有變革意義的原因了。
The beauty of rereading lies in the idea that our bond with the work is based on our present mental register. It’s true, the older I get, the more I feel time has wings. But with reading, it’s all about the present. It’s about the now and what one contributes to the now, because reading is a give and take between author and reader. Each has to pull their own weight.
重讀的美妙之處在於某種觀念，即認為我們與作品的聯繫是建立在當前精神狀態的基礎之上的。這是真的，我年齡越大，越感覺時光飛逝。但對於閱讀來說，它是關於當下的。它是關於現在以及一個人對現在所起的作用，因為閱讀是作者和讀者之間的一種交流，每一方都要盡力而為。