1) Since a particular bookstore happens to resemble a supermarket anyway the inescapable though perhaps unintended message is that books are consumable items meant to be devoured and forgotten like potatoes or pezza.

由于某家书店就好像一个超市，因此虽然是无意的，却不可避免地给了我们这样一个信息：书是消费品，如同土豆或意大利意大利馅饼一样，是被人吃掉后忘掉的。

2) The implied inclusion of books among the world’s perishable goods is hardly made more agreeable by the reflection that increasing numbers of books these days do seem to be written with just such consumption in mind and that most bookstores have become little more than news stands for hard cover publications of this sort which are merchandised for a few weeks—sometimes only as long as they remain on the best-seller lists—and are then retired to discount store (those jumbled graveyards of books so saddening to the hearts of authors) shortly before dropping out of print altogether.

无形中把书认为