The guiding thread of the book is the correspondence, and we will look at this in some length and you will discuss it in your sections, no doubt.

本书的导引线索是,当中的相似之处，我们会读到相当篇幅,你们也会毫无疑问地在之后进行讨论。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I also want to give another layer to this understanding of O'Connor as a religious writer by looking at what she said in her correspondence to one of her readers who asked her some questions, and this is on the handout that I passed around.

我还想给大家另一层,理解这位宗教作家的方式,那就是去看她,回复一位读者问题的信件，这在我发给大家的材料上有。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I think it's in part that, suffering from lupus, she was very much confined to her house in Georgia, and the letter writing, this kind of correspondence, was certainly a way for her to keep in contact with the world of readers and other writers and friends.

我想这多少与她，受病痛的折磨有关，受制于病情，她只能呆在,乔治亚州的家里，足不出户，所以写信，必然是她和读者、,其他作家和朋友联系的方式。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选