Close reading, the idea that you could take a text and do things with it--that the interpretation of a text wasn't just a matter of saying, "Oh, yes, it's about this and isn't it beautiful?"

当你拿到一篇文章之后,你所能做的不只是说些像,“哦，这是关于这个的，它读起来，是不是很美啊“之类的话“

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And if it is just one thing, you could tell a story in which it exists; you could tell a story in which it doesn't exist.

所以,如果它只是一个物体,你只能说它存在,或是不存在

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Because of the fact that you're going to die, obviously enough, it's not just that you'll get whatever life you get, but there's a finite amount of life that you're going to get.

因为你会死这个事实，很显然，不只是说你得到什么样的生命，而是说你将会得到一段有限年数的生命。

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