So what O'Connor does, is she presents a sense of the world imbued with structure and meaning, but a structure and meaning that looks essentially blank.

所以奥康纳所做的是，呈现一个充满了构架,和实义感的世界，只不过这些构架和实义,看起来完全是空无一物的。

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Who knows? Maybe we'll try on some other occasion, but for the moment I think you can see that in making remarks of this kind about a text one has shifted the attention from meaning to structure.

我们也许会在以后讲到它，谁知道呢，但是我想你们应该已经看出来,我们的重点已经从内容,转移到了形式。

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