The critic Malcolm Cowley says, "Others might say that Faulkner was not so much writing stories for the public as telling them to himself.

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Milton tells the muse -- or is he telling himself?

弥尔顿告诉缪斯或者是告诉自己？

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She took him willy-nilly to her." He's telling a story about himself, seemingly, but who is the "I," then, that's left over? "I feel her yet."

她犹疑不决地把他拉向自己，他在讲关于自己的故事，似乎是这样，但谁是“我“呢，“我感觉到了她“，又是什么“

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Milton is telling us that he is himself in the process, still in the process, of maturing.

弥尔顿是告诉我们他自己也还正在，渐渐成熟的过程中。

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This is telling you that this is himself a king or somebody great.

你会觉得,这孩子本身就是王，或者伟人。

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