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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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

战争荒谬而可怕的地方在于,那些没有个人恩怨的人应该被训练成冷血地自相残杀。

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

世界上有很多好运气,但它就是运气。我们都不安全。我们是孩子,在网上玩耍或争吵。

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

文学是一种通过文字传播的疾病,通常在儿童时期感染。

Funny way to spend your life, though, studying another chap's versifying.

不过,研究另一个人的版本是一种有趣的生活方式。