Chapter 67 Silverfish and Enemies of the Book

Silverfish and Enemies of the Book "The Enemy of Books" written by William Brides of England, published in the nineteenth century, although the length Not many, but it is a small book that every book lover loves to read.Because he was so sympathetic and conciliatory The degree, talking about the joy, worry and anger of book lovers, is all to the point. Among the enemies of the book that Bredes enumerated in his book, besides fire, water, and silverfish, are Dust, oblivion, servants, children, bookbinders, even the bibliophile himself.which about The silverfish chapter is the longest chapter in his little book.He quotes extensively from many sources, discussing from biological science

From poetry to poetry, a very detailed and interesting discussion of this little animal is made.According to many opinions, this is It is the most wonderful chapter of "The Enemy of Books".The fly in the ointment is that, as far as I am a Chinese reader, I All the records about silverfish in our ancient oriental civilization have been omitted and never adopted.as in ancient my country Rue is used instead to ward off beetles. According to folklore, spring paintings can ward off fire and beetles, so a stack of spring paintings is often hidden in the bookcase. Also, we have interesting myths about silverfish.For example, it is said that a silverfish eats a book, if it happens to eat it

If the word "immortal" is eaten three times in a row, it will turn into "pulse hope", which is like a hair made of A thing like a circle, if a scholar finds this thing from a book, he takes it to the sky and faces the stars at night. Fight and pray, and immediately a fairy will descend and take you up to become a fairy.A scholar once encountered this thing things, but his knowledge is not profound enough (this is the harm of his not reading miscellaneous books, because such knowledge is in the four Cannot be found in the Five Classics of the Book), if you don’t know that this thing is “Mai Wang”, burn it and discard it, so that it will be in vain.

Missed the chance to become a fairy. — such amusing little silverfish stories, pity Mr. Bredes Never knew. The first chapter of "The Enemy of Books" begins with a quotation from a little poem about silverfish by Dollaston, It's humorous enough, and tells the only truth about silverfish.The trial translation is as follows: There is one of the busiest bugs, Can spoil the most beautiful book, bit them into little holes, They pierce every page, But knowing nothing of its value, Never even think about it. Their unrecognizable teeth, To tear and defile poets, book lovers, sages and saints;

Not even for humor and learning. If you care to know why they are, the best reasons I can offer are: This is the bread of these poor worms. For pepper, snuff, light barley, They laughed it off. Yes, for products of such science, Why should these feeble little reptiles be afraid? Because only by reading your books often, It is an effective blow to these bugs.