Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

每一位读者的存在都是为了确保某本书适度地不朽。从这个意义上说，阅读是一种重生的仪式。

-- Alberto Manguel 阿尔维托·曼古埃尔