A student in the literature class asked his teacher if he had read a hot novel. The teacher said that he had not read the book.
　"What a surprise," said the student. "It has been published for several months."
　"Then have you read Shakespeare' s Hamlet?" asked the teacher.
　"No, " said the student.
　"What a pity. You'd better hurry, for it has been published for several hundred years."