This is, of course, disputable. There is a kind of a vogue recurrently in the history of fiction for a kind of miraculous sense that this is just exactly the way things are.

这个，当然，是有讨论余地的，这是一个趋势,循环地在小说历史中出现，为了一种不可思议的理由,说事情就是这样的。

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Peddlers who had these big, big leather bags that would go around Europe and sell things like pins and miraculous images of the Virgin Mary and the stories of saints and all this kind of stuff and Joan of Arc or Robin Hood, in the case of England, become part of the collective memory.

拿着大皮袋的小贩们走遍欧洲,到处贩卖例如胸针,圣母画像,圣徒故事,圣女贞德和罗宾汉之类的小册子,这成了英国大众记忆的一部分

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