为引领人们重拾记忆与背诵的快乐,美国诗人John Hollander(约翰·霍兰德,1929-)于1995年编纂诗集《为了记忆》(Committed to Memory)。下文节选自他为该诗集所写的序言,标题为译者所加。In Plato’s Phaedrus1,Socrates tells a story about the invention of writing,in which the Egyptian god Thoth2shows his written characters to another god,Ammon3,who rebukes4him,“This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’souls,because they will not use their memories;they will In order to lead people to regain their memory and memorization, the American poet John Hollander (John Holland 1929 -) compiled a 1995 book ”Committed to Memory.“ The following is an excerpt from the preface he wrote for the collection of poems, titled ”Translators“. In Plato’s Phaedrus1, Socrates tells a story about the invention of writing, in which the Egyptian god Thoth2shows his written characters to another god, Ammon3, who rebukes4him, ”This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’souls, because they will not use their memories; they will