But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental literacy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the skill even of the middle-chass reader,of his unwillingness to afford those spaces of silence,those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration,that surround the image of the classic art of reading.

熱心網友

但是現在，比起人們的基本讀寫能力缺失這個大問題，我更加擔心的是一個更奢侈一些的問題：甚至連中產階級里的愛書人也在逐漸失去這項技能，他們不再愿意接受那傳統的讀書藝術的印象——和安靜共處，享受那份在家居生活中空下一段時間全神貫注的品味一本書的奢侈。