I think that there's a problem here with that we're assuming that a person has self possession when they live in a society.

我觉得这样的假定是有问题的,假定一个人生活在社会中,也能完全拥有自主权。

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Yes. I think that you don't really have self possession if you choose to live in a society because you cannot just discount the people around you.

是的，我认为如果你生活在社会中,就不可能完全拥有自主权,因为你不能无视其他人的存在。

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Nabokov When we moved on to Nabokov, we had an author trying to imagine a work of art so autonomous from the world that it could be something like an autonomous form of life.

接下来我们说了，这是一位试图将文学作品想象为发自世界,以至于成为生活的一种自主形式的作家。

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