| All the wisdom of the ages, all the
stories that have delighted mankind for centuries, are easily and cheaply{{U}}
(21) {{/U}}to all of us{{U}} (22) {{/U}}the covers of books --
but we must know how to avail ourselves{{U}} (23) {{/U}}this treasure
and how to get{{U}} (24) {{/U}}from it. The most{{U}} (25)
{{/U}}people all over the world, are{{U}} (26) {{/U}}who have never
discovered how{{U}} (27) {{/U}}it is to read good books. I am very interested in people, in meeting them and{{U}} (28) {{/U}}about them. Some of the most {{U}}(29) {{/U}}people I've met existed only in a Writer's imagination, then{{U}} (30) {{/U}}the pages of his book, and then, again, in my imagination. I've found in books new friends, new societies, new words. If I am interested in people, others are interested not so much in who{{U}} (31) {{/U}}in how. Who in the books includes everybody from science-fiction superman two hundred centuries in the future all the way back to the first{{U}} (32) {{/U}}in history; how{{U}} (33) {{/U}}everything from the ingenious explanations of Sherlock Holmes{{U}} (34) {{/U}}the discoveries of science and ways of teaching manners to children. Reading can make our minds feel pleased,{{U}} (35) {{/U}}means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness{{U}} (36) {{/U}}you a good reader. Reading is{{U}} (37) {{/U}}, not because the writer is telling you something,{{U}} (38) {{/U}}because it makes your mind work. Your own imagination works together with the{{U}} (39) {{/U}}or even goes beyond his. Your experience,{{U}} (40) {{/U}}his, brings you to the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his. |