她决定,要真正成为一个书呆子,你必须更喜欢虚构的世界而不是现实世界。
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.
The best fiction makes the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.