But it's those kinds of questions that, there's a little bit of spark, there's a little bit of a powerful force and there's just a lot of hard work to get from here to there.

但是问题是，那时候已经产生了一些火花，一些外在动力,只不过达成目标还需要大量的艰苦工作。

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In the second half of the twentieth century and up now into the twenty-first century, writers were thinking very hard about what to do stylistically with all the innovations that come in that powerful period known as modernism.

自二十世纪下半叶,直至现今二十一世纪,作家都在努力思考在现代主义影响,深远的这个时期里该怎样进行文体上的创新。

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