And I think of that front and back of the page as another kind of knight's move. You think you're looking at one thing, and you land on another.

这让我想到这页的开头和结尾都是一种迂回前进,你认为你正在看某样事物,事实上你在看另一个。

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We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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