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那些令人不忍卒读的名著

Like all but the most 1)indefatigable, 2)Blue Steel, eye-of-the-tiger

3)bibliophiles,

I

possess

a

pile

of

books,

increasing

4)stealthily

year

on

year,

which

in

my

personal

library

should

be

shelved

under

Dusty

Reproach

—

the

mighty

5)canonical

works I

’

ve gradually given up hope of conquering. In the 6)teetering DR tower sits

War and Peace (in three different translations), Finnegans Wake (ain

’

t never gonna

happen) and Moby Dick (I tried everything, even

7)banishing all other books from

the

8)loo 9)cistern. I repeatedly read the 10)Harpic 11)blurb instead). These

12)omissions cause me shame, but I

’

m old and 13)knackered now and wear mum jeans.

I have more pressing matters to blush for.

I have another shelf of failures, though, which might be labeled Cowardice

14)Reproved, and these do cause me considerable 15)disquiet. The books in it also

tend to the canonical and

“

must- read,

”

often full of language in which I take

16)inordinate

pleasure.

But

I

find

them

simply

too

painful

to

read

in

their

entirety.

They

’

re like decades-old plasters, so 17)grimed and woven with skin and tiny hairs

that I just can

’

t bring myself to rip them loose.

Tess

of the

D

’

Urbervilles is the CR title

18)par excellence. I

have a love-hate

relationship

with

Hardy,

often

getting

very

cross

with

his

selfdestructive

characters

but remaining 19)pruriently fascinated by the 20)macabre and surreal turns of his

novels

—

pigs

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21)penises, exploding hearts, wife- selling, sheep-22)bloating and

other charming rural pastimes. But I have never managed to read Tess of the D

’

Urbervilles to the end. Mostly, I get as far as Tess

’

s rape before hurling my copy

across

the

room.

On

two

occasions

I

’

ve

23)gritted

my

teeth

past

her

bearing

and

burying

a child named Sorrow, to be 24)lulled into disastrous optimism by the appearance of

25)sanctimonious,

butter- wouldn

’

t-melt

Angel

Clare.

The

whole

26)diabolical

business

of

the

unread

note

and

the

wedding

night,

and

the

awful

shredding

sense

of

everything

going horribly, irreparably wrong as he 27)repudiates Tess

—

unlucky, unlucky Tess!

—

is just too much for my 28)snivelling soul to deal with. And I know how

29)horrendously it ends, although I

’

ve only ever read summaries. I sincerely hope

my daughter never has to read Tess for any kind of coursework in the future, as the