She did not use any safety devices, such as a seat belt or parachute.

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What other people call content is a device like any other, and it engages in the struggle for dominance with all the other devices that one can identify as aspects of literature."

别人所说的内容只是另一种方法而已，它为了争夺支配地位历经斗争,胜利的那些才能被称为文学性“

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