"The vuvuzelas were ever-present." "Those are these meter-long plastic horns that the South Africans love to bring to football games and blow them constantly throughout the games.

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Self-alienation, in Barth's work, is the product of desire. Desire, love: that's the moment when you're supposed to be perfectly present.

巴斯作品中，自我疏离是欲望的产物，欲望，爱：,那是你应该在场的时刻。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

We love those with whom we are most intimately related and who are most immediately present and visible to us.

我们爱那些,与我们关系最亲密的人,及立即就出现,在我们跟前的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

I have made some adjustments every year. I'm trying to deal with the fact that there are so many novels I love written between, say, 1985 and the present that are over 400 pages apiece.

每年我都会做一些调整,但是事实是,我喜欢自1985年到现在这段时期的很多小说，每本都超过400页。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选