前几天有记者打电话来,问我现在买书感觉如何。我说一则还好,一则还不算太好。这是与从前比较而言。“从前”指七十年代末,我刚买书的时候,也就是“文革”以后,外国文学名著开始“解禁”的时候。今昔不同,首先在于如今在书店里看见一本想要的书,无须急忙掏钱,过上两三个月,照样还能买到。从前可不行,一本书错过,也许第二天就买不着了。只好从书店门口的“黄牛”手里买加价的, A few days ago a reporter called to ask me how to buy a book now. I say one is fine, one is not too good. This is compared with the past. “In the past ” refers to the late seventies, when I first bought the book, that is, after the “Cultural Revolution”, the beginning of foreign literary master “lifted ”. The difference between the past and the present, first of all lies in the book now see a wanted book, no hurry to pay, after two or three months, still can buy. Never before, a book missed, may not be able to buy the next day. Had to buy from the bookstore “ox ” hands to buy fare,