A narrative theory is always talking with some satisfaction about how there's no such thing in fiction as irrelevant detail.

一个叙述性的理论通常都在讲述,小说中没有细节是完全和主题无关的这一满足感。

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There's no such thing as an isolated evil; our deeds affect one another.

没有独立存在的罪恶;,罪孽是互相影响的。

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In other words, we can't use genre either as a blanket term; one of the most influential people in persuading us that there's no such thing as literature, legal texts, theological texts, philosophical texts, or scientific texts.

话句话说，我们不能将体裁用做一个概括性称呼;,主张没有文学，法律文本,哲学文本，或是科学文本中，最具影响的人物之一。

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