高中英语 晨读英语美文60篇 45 The Influence of Literature素材.doc

the influence of literature00:06.40i will tell you what literature is!00:08.89noi only wish i could. but i cant.00:13.18gleams can be thrown on the secret, inklings given, but no more.00:18.00i will try to give you an inkling.00:20.94and, to do so, i will take you back into your history, or forward onto it.00:26.96that evening when you went for a walk with your faithful friend,00:31.11the friend from whom you hid nothingor almost nothing!00:34.71you were, in truth,00:36.80somewhat inclined to hide from him the particular matter00:40.07which monopolized your mind that evening,00:42.38but somehow you contrived to get on to it,00:45.76drawn by an overpowering fascination.00:48.73and as your friend was sympathetic and discreet,00:52.00and flattered you by a respectful curiosity,00:55.27you proceeded further and further into the said matter,00:58.79growing more and more confidential,01:01.30until at last you cried out,01:03.60in a terrific whisper: “my boy, she is simply miraculous!”01:08.41at that moment you were in the domain of literature.01:12.45let me explain.01:14.32of course, in the ordinary acceptation of the word,01:18.25she was not miraculous.01:20.10she was just a girl.01:21.74if a girl is to be called a miracle,01:24.38then you might call pretty nearly everything a miracle01:27.66that is just it: you might.01:30.38you can. you ought.01:32.69amid all the miracles of the universe you had just wakened to one.01:37.49you were full of your discovery.01:40.25you were under a divine impulsion to impart that discovery.01:44.29you were drawn towards the whole of the rest of the human race.01:48.88mark the effect of your mood and utterance on your faithful friend.01:53.25he knew that she was not a miracle.01:56.10but you, by the force and sincerity of your own vision of her,02:00.91and by the fervor of your desire to make him participate in your vision,02:05.73did for a quite long time cause him to feel02:09.66that he had been blind to the miracle of that girl!02:13.15you were producing literature.02:16.01you were alive.02:17.86your eyes were unlidded, your ears were unstopped,02:21.79to some part of the beauty and the strangeness of the world;02:25.86and a strong instinct within you forced you to tell someone.02:30.00it was not enough for you that you saw and heard.02:33.72others had to see and hear.02:36.41other had to be wakened up.02:38.94and they were: it is quite possible02:42.09i am not quite sure02:44.00that your faithful friend the very next day,02:47.06or t