In this alternate version of their life, Fiona has gone from housewife to heroine as leader of the ogre resistance fighters.

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This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.

这和Nabokov的想法迥然不同,他讲具体化视为一种替代物或者是竞争的创造性。

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