You have to be kind of clued into them, they are a world of their own, and most people find them disappointing because the best short stories are not constructed like novels.

  • -- Tobias Wolff 托比亚斯·沃尔夫

你必须对它们有所了解,它们是一个自己的世界,大多数人发现它们令人失望,因为最好的短篇小说不像小说那样构造。

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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.

当我发现故事书是由人写的,书并不是自然奇观,而是像草一样自己生长出来的时候,我感到既震惊又失望。