When demons are cast out by the apostles and sent into a herd of pigs, and the pigs go running off a cliff and die; that's one image.

第一个是魔鬼们被使徒们赶出了天界,赶到了一群猪的中间，然后那些猪就跑向了悬崖,摔死在了那里。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

You have the image of the cutting off, the castration, of the power of generativity. All poetic potency, all power to assert oneself in the world, can be severed and that's it.

有阉割，切除繁殖能力的，的形象，诗人的所有能力，所有能居于世上的力量都可以被剥夺，就是这样。

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I actually want to change that around, if I might, and play with that, because that's a really useful image for us: "takes the mask off literature and reminds us how we come to be sympathetic or Richard Wright how we come to think something." Think back to Richard Wright, who wants words to disappear, to be completely transparent and to leave you just with your response.

实际上，我想要改变一点，可能的话，玩弄一下，因为那对我们是很有用的画面：,把文学的面具卸下,我们是如何同情,或思考事物的，回想一下，他希望文字消失，而变成透明的，只剩下你们的回应。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选