An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.

  • -- William James 威廉·詹姆斯

一个具有启发性的想法,必须以启示的力量来到个人面前。

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Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.

总的来说,电视广播在画面上比印刷媒体更具暗示性,不那么具体,距离也更遥远:通常你知道肿块是一具尸体,只是因为一个喋喋不休的记者告诉你它是一具尸体。

Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller. Revelation, for example.

理性是一件好东西,但它不是作家能得到的唯一东西。这只是一个讲故事的人可以使用的众多工具中的一部分。例如,启示。

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

诗歌至少是一种优雅,至多是一种启示。