The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.
文学的用处,是为我们提供一个能够俯瞰当下生活的平台,一个可以借以撬动生活的支点。
— Ralph Waldo Emerson · Circles · Essays: First Series (1841) —
The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.
文学的用处,是为我们提供一个能够俯瞰当下生活的平台,一个可以借以撬动生活的支点。