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CHAPTER I
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I care not how humble1 your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns2. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge3 back into the soothing4 company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid5 behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie6 about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed7 in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink. Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities8 of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows, as their bodies into impalpable dust, yet here are their very spirits at your command.
It is our familiarity also which has lessened9 our perception of the miraculous10 good fortune which we enjoy. Let us suppose that we were suddenly to learn that Shakespeare had returned to earth, and that he would favour any of us with an hour of his wit and his fancy. How eagerly we would seek him out! And yet we have him—the very best of him—at our elbows from week to week, and hardly trouble ourselves to put out our hands to
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affluent
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scotch
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adorned
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pathos
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gateway
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glamour
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abhorrent
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adorning
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修饰,装饰物 | |
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alluring
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celebrity
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scorched
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烧焦,烤焦( scorch的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(植物)枯萎,把…晒枯; 高速行驶; 枯焦 | |
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v.使喷出( puff的现在分词 );喷着汽(或烟)移动;吹嘘;吹捧 | |
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mere
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stimulation
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bigotry
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judgment
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recollect
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prosaic
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transmuted
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multiplication
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intruded
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manor
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distinguished
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gutters
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(路边)排水沟( gutter的名词复数 ); 阴沟; (屋顶的)天沟; 贫贱的境地 | |
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bullies
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kennel
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copper
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insolent
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mortified
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mansion
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boon
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consolation
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muster
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militia
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lieutenant
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mariner
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