……我们实地考察语言艺术市集时看到的世界语展位，他说：“我真不明白那个展位为什么总是这么冷清，真让人失望。”我猜“一切都没怎么变”，对吧？如果你没读过，我推荐《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》（Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare）：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear... 也许我们俩都应该继续选择“生存”（to be）而不是“毁灭”（not to be）。[编辑] 我当时说的是这个……
…Esperanto booth in the language arts faire we took a field trip to and said, "I don't know why that booth is always so disappointingly unattended." I guess "ain't much changed", right? I recommend "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" if you haven't read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear... and maybe we should both just continue to choose "to be" rather than "not to be". [edit] I was talking this…
Favorite quote by Azimov: He was on some talk show, and the host asked why he wrote Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare: aren't there already thousands of books about Shakespeare? He said, "Yeah, but not by me."
Sigh. Isaac Asimov was willing to write about anything at all, whether he understood it or not. As a teen I read Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Asimov's Guide to Humor, and a good fraction of the other 200 books he had published up to then. He more than doubled that number before he died. He was careful about his facts, though he had a policy…
Funnily enough, I was reading Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare last night, and thinking how great it was to have literature explained by a man with a clear scientific mind instead of a mushy literary one. Unfortunately, the Asimovs of this world are few and far…
…grasp what's going on, while someone with a good understanding of feudal politics (or anyone who's played much Crusader Kings) will be going "oh shit, this is really bad". This is where something like Asimov's guide to Shakespeare, or any number of free online lectures about the plays, can be helpful. As for what's great: 1) Masterful plotting, leaving just enough up to the audience to figure out (and, more often than not, leveraging…
艾萨克·阿西莫夫写了《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》（Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare），某个脱口秀主持人问他：“你为什么要写这本？关于莎士比亚的书都有成千上万本了！”他说：“是啊，但没有一本是我写的。”
Isaac Asimov wrote "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" and some talk show host asked him "Why did you write this? There are thousands of books about Shakespeare!" He said, "Yeah, but not by me."
……我们实地考察语言艺术市集时看到的世界语展位，他说：“我真不明白那个展位为什么总是这么冷清，真让人失望。”我猜“一切都没怎么变”，对吧？如果你没读过，我推荐《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》（Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare）：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear... 也许我们俩都应该继续选择“生存”（to be）而不是“毁灭”（not to be）。[编辑] 我当时说的是这个……
…Esperanto booth in the language arts faire we took a field trip to and said, "I don't know why that booth is always so disappointingly unattended." I guess "ain't much changed", right? I recommend "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" if you haven't read it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov%27s_Guide_to_Shakespear... and maybe we should both just continue to choose "to be" rather than "not to be". [edit] I was talking this…
我最喜欢的阿西莫夫名言：他上某个脱口秀节目时，主持人问他为什么要写《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》：写莎士比亚的书不是已经有成千上万本了吗？他说：“对啊，但都不是我写的。”
Favorite quote by Azimov: He was on some talk show, and the host asked why he wrote Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare: aren't there already thousands of books about Shakespeare? He said, "Yeah, but not by me."
唉。艾萨克·阿西莫夫是什么都愿意写，不管他到底懂不懂。我十几岁的时候读过《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》、《阿西莫夫幽默指南》，以及他当时出版的其他200本书中的相当一部分。在他去世前，这个数字又翻了一倍多。他对事实考证很严谨，尽管他有一套准则……
Sigh. Isaac Asimov was willing to write about anything at all, whether he understood it or not. As a teen I read Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Asimov's Guide to Humor, and a good fraction of the other 200 books he had published up to then. He more than doubled that number before he died. He was careful about his facts, though he had a policy…
挺巧的是，我昨晚还在读《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》，当时就在想，能有一个头脑清晰的理科思维的人、而不是一个多愁善感糊里糊涂的文科脑子来讲解文学，是多么爽的一件事。可惜，这世上的阿西莫夫实在是凤毛麟角……
Funnily enough, I was reading Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare last night, and thinking how great it was to have literature explained by a man with a clear scientific mind instead of a mushy literary one. Unfortunately, the Asimovs of this world are few and far…
……摸不清头脑，而对封建政治了解深入的人（或者常玩《十字军之王》/Crusader Kings 的人）则会惊呼“卧槽，这下全完了”。这时候像《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》这样的书，或者网上随便找的剧作公开课，就能派上用场了。至于好在哪：1）精妙绝伦的情节构思，留出恰到好处的留白让观众自己去琢磨（而且往往是利用……
…grasp what's going on, while someone with a good understanding of feudal politics (or anyone who's played much Crusader Kings) will be going "oh shit, this is really bad". This is where something like Asimov's guide to Shakespeare, or any number of free online lectures about the plays, can be helpful. As for what's great: 1) Masterful plotting, leaving just enough up to the audience to figure out (and, more often than not, leveraging…
艾萨克·阿西莫夫写了《阿西莫夫莎士比亚导读》（Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare），某个脱口秀主持人问他：“你为什么要写这本？关于莎士比亚的书都有成千上万本了！”他说：“是啊，但没有一本是我写的。”
Isaac Asimov wrote "Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare" and some talk show host asked him "Why did you write this? There are thousands of books about Shakespeare!" He said, "Yeah, but not by me."