Reading for him is a way of accessing feeling and that's the kind of reading that he wants from us, from the people who read his book.

对他来说，读书是获得感觉的方式,同时，他也是在向我们，灌输一种他的读书观念。

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It was a belief in a hierarchical conception of not only society, but of people.

这就是一种不仅对于社会,也关于人类自身的等级观念

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So, this is the other form that the aesthetic can take. And I think that Nabokov is consistently concerned about these two valences of what the aesthetic can look like.

那么这就是那种审美观念的,另一种形式，我认为纳博科夫一直十分关注这两种审美的,可能形式十分关注。

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Two radical prescriptions based on people's notion perspective.

基于人的观念得到两种皆然不同的手段。

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