The purpose of new form is not to express new content, but to change an old form which has lost its aesthetic quality lost its power to take the film away from our eyes].

新形式的目的不是要表达新的内容，而是要更换已经失去美学价值的旧形式,不能调整我们看世界的旧眼光了。

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Zooey That thread of the mystical quality of language at its extreme of literary power is what I drew out of Franny and Zooey.

我所描述的Franny和,正是那种语言的神秘色彩，处于它极端的艺术感染力。

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