Again and again he says that the important thing is to insist on the difference between literature and other forms of discourse.

他一遍又一遍地说，重要的是坚持,文学和其它文体间的不同。

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There are relevant and interesting fields of discourse and there are completely irrelevant fields of discourse, and some of these fields are on the sides of angelic discourse and some of these fields are on the side of the demonic.

有和话语相关的有趣的领域,也有完全不相关的领域，一些领域有如天使一般,而另一些则如恶魔。

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that Phoebus Apollo was actually eavesdropping on the poet's discourse.

关于阿波罗是否在背地里偷听诗人的演说。

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In the interest of time, I'm going to skip over a few other passages that I was going to read to you in reinforcement of this insistence, on de Man's part, that literature differs from other forms of discourse, the remaining question being: literature differs from other forms of discourse how?

由于时间关系，我将忽略一些其它的文章,我本想念给你们听，来巩固对这个主张的理解，对于德曼，文学与其它问题形式不同，剩下的问题是：,文学怎样与其它文体不同？

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