钱钟书先生在接到一位英国女粉丝的求见电话时回道:“假如你吃了个鸡蛋觉得不错,何必要认识那个下蛋的母鸡呢?”钱先生用一句幽默妙答婉拒了一位看了作品对作者发生兴趣的读者。以前我们只看到他的机智,现在想来,那位女读者的需求其实既典型又普遍,而且也够合理。因为,呆板的印刷术的产物——书籍所能提供的信息量,往往不能满足出于各种初衷想要了解作者本人的那部分读者的强 When he received a phone call from a British female fan, Mr. Qian returned: “If you eat an egg and feel good, why should you know that egg hen?” Mr. Qian declined with a humorous greeting A reader who watched the work interested in the author. In the past we only saw his wit, now want to come, the female reader’s needs are actually typical and common, but also reasonable enough. Because the product of dull typography - the amount of information that books can provide - often fails to meet the needs of those readers who want to understand the author for a variety of reasons