In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

  • -- W. H. Auden 奥登

对于一个作家,大多数读者相信双重标准:他们可能经常对他不忠,但他必须永远,永远不要对他们不忠。

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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

在言语中,言语服从于一种独立于第一种关系的关系,这种关系是建立在它们之间联系的基础上的:这就是我所说的组合关系。

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.

在剧院里,角色们必须切断作家的脐带,用自己的声音说话。

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

作家也必须如此,他的作品应该与粗俗的人一起,具有粗俗的风格。

We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

与科学相比,我们高估了艺术的价值。