Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

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It's regarded perhaps by today's political science as too value laden too subjective to speak of statesmanship or statecraft. This too again is a word that carries distinctive and strong ? connotations. Who is a statesman?

因那在今日的政治科学可能包含,太多的价值观,讲领袖风范太过主观或说权术,而也是这个字,它含带了特殊与强烈的内涵，谁是政治家？

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