Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.

  • -- Rick Moody 自里克·穆迪

体裁是书店的问题,而不是文学的问题。

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Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

通货膨胀并不总是主要问题,甚至根本不是问题。有时,尽管很少,通缩是一个更严重的威胁,我们需要搁置许多我们一直珍视的正统观点。

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

在冷战后的狂喜中,有一种错误的观念认为,联合国可以在任何地方解决所有问题。

First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.

首先,文学只指它自己,文学理论。

To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.

要理解一种文学风格,就要考虑它遗漏了什么。

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

哪里的人性像书店那么脆弱?