So, my choice for this is that odd introduction in-between the two stories, and this is on 48 and 49.

因此，我的选择是那个故事的中间,的那篇奇怪的介绍，在48页和49页。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

There's a peculiar story that refers particularly and that is the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933.

有一个奇怪的故事,1993年格拉斯-斯蒂格尔法。

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The story is explaining how these odd conditions of life came to be as they are, which is not to say that it's the ideal situation or even that it's God's will for humankind these are etiological fables, and they're best read as such.

这个故事解释了，这些奇怪的生活状态,并不是说，这些便是理想的,甚至是根据上帝旨意的生活状态,而是阐述为什么会这样的原因，这是最好的解释。

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