How happy it can be to have a copy of "Illustrated Fine-Line Portrait Edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms"繪圖綉像本三國演義?

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How happy it can be to have a copy of 

"Illustrated Fine-Line Portrait Edition of Romance of the Three Kingdoms"繪圖綉像本三國演義?

I thought the book must be selling in a huge price if you can find one nowadays.

It was one of my treasure when I was young.

My mother was dead when I was 11, lots of other poor families started moving into our house to share the place in high rents.

Our house was crowdy and noicy suddenly.

One of the neighborhood elders gave me that book, asking me whether I like it or not.

The book was only half inch thick and really thin. May be it was only the second or third volume of the novel.

But it created a long lasting memory in my childhood.

The papers were white, pale in color,  and very filmsy.

The printed words are small, maybe half the size of a modern font.

It was until now that I can understand that it was for saving papers,  keeping the printing cost lower.

I read it again and again in great pleasure.

And I believe I will need a magnifier if I got it now.

How can such a memory be floating in my brain nowadays?

I was in Macao by then.

If I were in Taiwan, things will be no different.

The happiness will be the same.

Because the words were printed in normal Chinese characters.

It will be completely tasteless if it were printed in simplified Chinese.

It was not one or two or several images floating in your brain.

It was millions of them.

You never know how many millions of words have been flying before your eyes.

You'll never know how high the pleasure was psychologically happened and planted into the mind.

And of course, you need a perfect printing.

And it must not be in a simplified copy.

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