being entertaining shouldn't be dreary and if anything is clearly full of purposes of entertaining It's done well enough. It becomes an art.

但是娱乐不一定就要粗俗,一个东西，只要明显带有,娱乐的目的,而且很受欢迎的话，那它就成了艺术。

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But I have a favorite line in his novel called The Hamlet, where Faulkner has one of his characters say, and I quote: "Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they ain't brave enough to cure."

但我最爱他在小说《村子》里的一句话,他笔下的一个角色说道,"感谢上帝,让人类学会了怎样,迅速的忘记那些我们没勇气面对的事"

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