And I actually say in my acknowledgements that I wrote this book, above all, for the next generation, for my children.
事实上,我在致谢中提到,我写这本书,首先是为了美国的下一代,为了我的孩子。
One of the reasons I like it, is it really does confront you with this very clear picture.
我喜欢这本书的原因之一,是它真的让你置身于,一幅清晰的画面之中。
I mentioned the book for the course and the book is a book that I've written.
我提到过这门课程用到的教材,这本书是我写的
Oops, I have gone too far. This is the back of the magazine.
啊,我扯太远了,这是这本书的封底。
It is my own textbook, "Listening to Music", now in the fifth edition.
这本是我的书,《聆听音乐》,现在已经是第五版了
I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.
我已经解释过了,用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬,除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书,也就是你们现在也在读的。
Now, I look around this room, I don't see anybody whose head is three times bigger than mine, so I know that you cannot digest everything the books have.
我在教室里扫了一遍,没看见谁的脑袋比我大三倍,我知道你们是不可能看完这本书的
From the various portraits and descriptions of Hobbes, we can tell he was a man of considerable charm, and I wish that in the book we had had his picture, a reproduction of his portrait, on it.
从霍布斯的各种肖像和描述,我们可以看出他是一个很有魅力的人,我希望我们这本书,这本复印本,能有他的肖像在上面。
So, I think this is what Pynchon brings to the string of meditations on what language can do, and what the novel is for, that I began my lecture today with, just recapping for you.
我认为这就是Pynchon带来的对语言,能够做什么和这本书是为了什么的思考,我在今天的开始就说过,现在再提一下。
John Coltrane John Coltrane I got a whole chapter on Coltrane I should not forget him.
比如,这本书中有一章都是关于他的,我必须提他,还有他的。
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