If the element of surprise is to become absolutely central and paramount in the reading process, the gap has to get bigger.

如果“惊讶“元素在阅读过程中是,绝对中心，至高无上的，那么这个间隙必须会更大。

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We have to resist excessive commitment to this idea of it being a center, but it is at least not a center which somehow stands outside of itself and is a center only in the sense that it is some remote, hidden, impersonal, distant cause.

我们必须反对对这个观点过多的承诺,这个人为它是中心的观点，但它至少不是一个,以某种方式处于自身之外的中心，而只在某种意义上是中心,比如说，它有些偏僻，隐蔽，客观，遥远。

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