在書店里度過的時光
[ 2007-03-12 09:33 ]
Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether
you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may
even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever
the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings.
The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust jacket is irresistible,
although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up
with a rather dull book.
You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much
later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off
to keep some forgotten appointment --without buying a book, of course.
This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think , the
main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to
do this. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a
good shop, no assistant to you with inevitable greeting, "Can I help you, sir?"
You finished browsing.
Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to
find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the
assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling
a single book.
You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a
bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins
and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel. This sort of
thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste
great deal of time wandering from section to section.
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