Add up your experiences and your accomplishments and the particular details of your life as what the story is about.

把你生活中的经历和成就,以及特定的细节相加才是关键。

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There is a genre of literature that details the lives of saints, Hagiography, but that came later and is largely something we find in the Christian era.

有种文学体裁就是专门细节记录圣人生活的,圣徒传记，不过这出现的比较晚,而且大多是在基督公元之后。

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In Pynchon, often, these are somehow social details about people talking to other people, political things, places, and how houses are arranged.

在Pynchon的书中一般是社会生活的细节,比如说人们的交谈，政治问题，地点或是房屋的布置。

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