It’s five or six years ago when I first heard of such a little figure called Harry Potter the Magician. With black-bordered glasses and pale face, the little boy conquered almost all the girls and some of the boys. More amazingly, young teachers started to talk about that tiny pupil in some magic school.
One year later, there was the movie. And then the second Harry Potter storybook. After that, the little hero visits the planet every year to give his charming strike to the bestseller market and to the thirsty readers.
As indicated by some data, the first five books sells 270m totally, which has occupied the third chair of the book sales ever. The first chair sits the Bible and the second the Selection of Chairman Mao. Jesus Christ, could you imagine such a world with such a incredible boy?
July 16, though with some email mistake, the sixth installment came up on the shelves. Only 5 hours later since published firstly, reader started to post book review online. In no more than one day, Harry Potter became the most heated keyword on the major search engines and the astonishing number of sales reached 6.9m, more than 250,000 sales an hour. Two days later, the English version boarded on China, as reported, Chinese kids showed equally great ardor to this British magic apprentice. By 6 am queues were forming in major cities of China, waiting to grab copies. And Chinese version is set to be published on Oct 15.
ZDNet, a technews providers, asked on July 18, "guess how many Skype users have ‘Harry Potter,’ ‘Voldemort’ names". The answer wasn’t such a surprise: 45 million users and counting.

今天纽约时报的社论版以Winning Back Europe’s Heart为标题推出了一组文章。作者均为欧洲的知名人士，包括U2乐队的BONO。这组文章布什总统访问欧洲对大西洋两岸关系进行了个人化的评论。

这组文章十分难得，个人已经全部打印为PDF收藏。如有需要者可以来函索取。

今天看完了许知远的《这一代人的中国意识》，感觉像许的日记，他把自己分析得很好，就像他说的那样。喜欢写作胜于喜欢思考，语气带有一种不相称的严肃和不
容置疑，文法严重西化，逻辑几乎是混乱的。200多页的小册子，我还是只读到了他从前的那些观点，而这些观点也似乎是许从前读到的。

翻开黑色封面的《魔法无法——外国文学阅读手记》，这是一本名字很俗的书，但是目录页中却写满了充满诱惑的名
字。那些伟大的人，善于用文字描绘人物和他们的时代。他们各自保有自己的风格，如巴别尔一般简省的最让人痛快：

“宅旁的教堂里钟声乱鸣，打
钟人疯了。这是个布满星斗的七月之夜。”
“无家可归的月亮在城里徘徊”
“我面前是集市和集市的死亡”

翻译得好极了，简直像诗。

昨天又借到四本书，以上是其中的两本。他们都很有趣，远比网上那些八卦新闻好看。

“手不释卷”是我的老师送给我的一幅书法。
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