The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

  • -- Lionel Trilling 特里林

文学的功能,通过它所有的变异,一直是让我们意识到自我的特殊性,以及自我在与社会和文化的冲突中的高度权威。从这个意义上说,文学是颠覆性的。

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It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

有趣的是,所有的革命文学作品都是牧师写的。这些人参与了一场革命,反对世界上有史以来最强大的国家。

If two neighbors want to fight, they will find a quarrel in a straw.

如果两个邻居要打架,他们会找个借口的。

Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

文学既是社会进步的原因,又是社会进步的结果。

He is scabby-headed and quarrels about the comb.

他长了疥疮,经常为梳子争吵。