I'm as bored as Ben

 

An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks

 "Remembering is not the re-excitation of innumerable fixes, lifeless and fragmentary traces. 
It is an imaginative reconstruction, or construction, built out of the relation of our attitude towards a whole active mass of organized past reactions or experience, and to a little outstanding detail which commonly appears in image or in language form. It is thus hardly ever really exact, even in the most rudimentary cases of rote recapitulation, and it is not at all important that it should be so"(p164). 

 

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat 

《火星上的人類學家》及《錯把太太當帽子的人》是大學時期的延伸閱讀。
好一陣子忘卻了這些書的存在，直到前一陣子為了寫作業，
重新搜尋腦海中的經典書籍，無意間想起了這兩本睽違已久的"老朋友"，
還有數本藝術史的經典，像是《藝術的故事》、《造型藝術的意義》...，
通通把他們借回家溫習，
只不過，
當初讀的是中譯本，
現在得以一睹他們的原文風采~ 
(哈!沒辦法，因為只有英文版嘛。不過這也算是附加收穫，可以強迫自己讀原文書)