申論題內容
(二) For readers of books, reading letters on a page is only one of its many
guises. The astronomer reading a map of stars that no longer exist; the
Japanese architect reading the land on which a house is to be built so as to
guard it from evil forces; the zoologist reading the spoor of animals in the
forest; the Chinese fortune-teller reading the ancient marks on the shell of
a tortoise; the psychiatrist helping patients read their own bewildering
dreams; the Hawaiian fisherman reading the ocean currents by plunging a
hand into the water—all these share with book-readers the craft of
deciphering and translating signs.(10 分)