Almost ten years after its publication, the aged professor still got very excited over his book: "It was detective work. I had a lot of fun working on it."

在这本书出版几乎十年以后，这位上了年纪的教授谈起这本书依然很兴奋：“这是一本侦探性的书，写这本书时可有意思了。”

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That book is a sequel, so you'd assume the first one was called Nothing Lasts Forev, but it was actually given the imaginative title of The Detective.

该书是部续集，你可能会猜说第一部或许叫Nothing Lasts Forev，但实际上它有个极具想象力的书名：《侦探》（The Detective）。

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The book blends genuine detective-work with the most absurd non-sequiturs and red herrings of literary criticism.

这本书把真正的侦探工作与最为荒谬的非理性推理和离题万里的文学批评混杂到了一块儿。

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