Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects-on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor-the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) That edition of Chaucer... is it a Kelmscott? (Natch.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die AnotherDay. (Because it is.) No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you-a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy.
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机译：没有什么让您为杰伊·沃克（Jay Walker）图书馆的文化冲击做好准备。您从他的新英格兰房屋的严酷客厅出来，穿过走廊进入相当于迪斯尼乐园的书目。墙壁上，桌子上，站立在地板上的房间，地标性建筑和引人注目的历史物品塞满了房间，在三个迷宫般的水平上占地约3600平方英尺。那是人造卫星吗？ （是的）嘿，这些书似乎装在红宝石里。 （是。）那本《乔uc》 ...是凯姆斯科特吗？ （Natch。）Gee，那盏枝形吊灯看起来像是James Bond电影《 Die AnotherDay》中的那盏。 （因为它是。）无论您在这个字形曲线的哪个位置转动，都会有另一件宝物向您招呼-1665年伦敦的《死亡率法案》编年史（您可以按周跟踪鼠疫的死亡人数），这是土星V火箭（该火箭发射了阿波罗11号登月舱），这是一张有框的餐巾纸，始于1943年，富兰克林·罗斯福（Franklin D. Roosevelt）概述了他赢得二战的计划。立刻，您的思想就如热太妃糖般舒展了。
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