He can reject the beauty of Homer, he can reject the beauty of Virgil, but he can also reject -- and this has got to be an even greater challenge, perhaps -- he can also reject the help of his Christian teacher, Edmund Spenser.

他可以抗拒荷马和维吉尔的文采之美，更加了不起的是，他可以抗拒,来自他基督教派的老师,埃蒙德·斯潘塞的帮助。

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And the real is that sense of suffering, and that the novel can make you feel things, both the pleasure of humor or the pleasure of beauty, but also that sense of compassion.

真正的东西是种受苦的感觉，这本书能够让你感到一些事，既有对幽默和美的愉悦也有怜悯的感觉，我不知道你们是怎么样的，我是对Oedipa感到同情。

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