And here my favorite program book so far has been the Iliad, because I think you get the full spectrum of human experience."

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

Now, if you ask me right now if I would rather experience intense pleasure or have a full lifetime of higher pleasure, I would consider intense pleasure to be low pleasure.

现在你要是问，我是要体验强烈的快感,还是一辈子的高级快乐，我把强烈快感看作低级快乐。

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So, if language seems exhausted because it's always preceding you, everything has always already been said, there's no new plot to be had, the world is full of stock phrases, how do you use them to embody an experience that seems fresh to you?

所以，如果因语言，在你之前就存在，而它就显得枯竭，如果一切都已经被说过，如果已没有新的情节可供创造，如果世界一直充满陈腔旧调，你如何能够用它们,呈现出一个崭新的体验？

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